... On Monday a meeting to form & new Rate- payers Association for Cardiff took place at 68, Metal-street, Roafch. Dr. Fox was voted to the chair. Canon Thompson wrote wishing success in the etIor.ta made to achieve a worthy end. Alderman Troance, in a letter, promised assist- ance. Councillor Robinson wrote that, while endorsing the chief aims of the association. he thought it unwise to join a ...

... SWANSEA MURDER. TRIAL AT THE ASSIZES. JUDGE'S CHARGE. At tho Glamorganshire Assizes on Monday Mr Justice Channell devoted the major portion of his charge to the grand jury to the Swans sa murder case. It was one, he remarked which he dare say the grand jury had heard a great deal about, as it was a somewhat peculiar charge of murder against a man named Rhys Davies, the victim being one Jesse ...

... Redmond Coleman, John Lehane, John Christo- pher, and Patrick Flynn were again placed in the dock of the Merthyr Police Court on Monday on the charge of doing grievous bodily harm to Police-constables Hughes and Senior. Superin- tendent Thorney informed the Bench that the in- jured constables had not recovered from the in- juries they received at the hands of the prisoners, and an adioornznent ...

... COLLIERY DEVELOPMENT AT BRYNMENYN. Our correspondent is informed on reliable authority that a company composed of gentlemen from the Garw Valley, Newport, and elsewhere, have leased a. large aiea of land at Brynmenyn, which includes Abergarw and Tyfry Farms, the former being part of Mr Blandy Jenkins' estate and the latter being Lord Dunraven's property. The documents apertaining to the same ...

... OUT FOR A SUNDAY WALK. Two brotbershJohn andv. Townsena-resid. ing at Commercial-road, Cadoxton, were brought before the magistrates at Barry Police Court on Monday charged with trespassing in pursuit of conics on land in the occupation of Mr Thomas, Cog Farm, on u. recent Sunday. Willisum Barrell and Henry Samways, two gamekeepers, saw the men near the opening of a culvert trying to worry a ...

... Dr. Ambrose, the coroner for South Essex, on Tuesday resumed the inquest at Eaat Ham concerning the death of Bertha Russ, aged five years, whose body was found in the cupboard of an unfinished house on March 5th. within a mile of her parents' house, at 29, Byron-avenue, East Ham. The child had been missing for a fortnight, being last seen alive as she was leaving St. Barnabas Church after ...

... OLD AGE PENSIONS. MR L. HOLLAND'S BILL. DEBATE IN THE COMMONS. MR CHAMBERLAIN'S VIEWS. In the House of Commons on Wednesday Mr Lionel Holland moved the second reading of the Old Age Pensions Bill, and stated that its object was that a person who at the age of 25 insured against sickness and funeral expenses should on attaining the age of 65 be entitled to a pension of Sa a week. There was ...

... THE RUMOURS OF PROSECUTION. The Press Association is informed that the private examination of Mr Kemp Welch was proceeded with at the London Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday before Mr Registrar Hope. It will be remembered that this gentleman was stated to have received £55,000 cash and shares in connection with the Singer promotion, a Mr Heymer acting as his nominee. This Mr Kemp Welch has denied ...

... The nomination for the Harrow Division will take place next Wednesday, and the poUiDg on the following Wednesday. ...

... POOR LAW RELIEF TO STRIKERS. ECHO OF THE COAL WAR. BEDWELLTY EXPENDITURE CHALLENGED. EBBW VALE AND TREDEGAR COM- PANIES' ACTION. At the Workhouse, Tredegar, on Wednesday, before Mr A. W. Dolby, district auditor under the Local Government Board, Mr S. G. Lushington (instructed by Messrs Ward, Col- borne, and Coulman, Newport) objected on behalf of the Ebbw Vale Company and the Tredegar Company ...

... HOCKEY NOTES. [BY CANTAB] THE LAST INTERNATIONAL. Those who expected to see only a. amall sprinkling of spectators 'at the International Hockey match between England and Wales on Satnrday at Newport were agreeably surprised when both sides of play were well lined with spectators, there being at least PePle present, a number which doubtless would have been quite double if it had not been for ...

... ARRESTED ON A LINER. SAILOR WANTED FOR BURGLARY. A sensation was provided for the passengers of the royal mail steamer Nile on arrival at Southamp- ton on Tuesday. As the vessel approached Netley she took on board the pilot and two officers, who were certainly unexpected, in the form of two detectives, who were searching for a person charged with burglary, and whose arrest had been asked for ...