... dowfn^rtltt morf'nS John Hitchings,hobbler, was ^plovment on the tide, when he ,nr, an ...

... Veio rema in the Chester Cup,andwiUbe-ridden, by purkia. Trident goes to Chester to run in the Dee Stakes at the old-fashioned meeting. The well-known horse Northallerton has been reusmed, and is now to be known as Uncle Mac. Heapy will have the mount.on .Gay Lumley in the Jubilee Stakes, in which Sam Loatesiias been ongaged to ride Tom Cringle. TomljoateB will ride Lord Edward II 'in the ...

... LORD DUNRAVEN RETURNED. The complete returns for the County Council elections for the Province of Munster are as follow :—Cork—32 Nationalists, all Clotholios; Unionists, nil. Limerick-17 Nationalists 3 Unionists (Lord Dunraven, Lord Monteagle.. and Mr Atkinson). The latter is the brother of the Attorney-General for Ireland. Tipperary (North Riding)—18 Nationalists 2 Unionists. South RidirLg ...

... O'th arayllfa. Base henafol, Golwg fendigadig sydd Trem air flaenglwm cyrnaeithftsol, Israel Duw dan faner ffvùd. Base fendigaid! cawn Flwyddiadur Eglwys lor o'th hanfod di; Mawrion wyrtbiau* lor ddilenir Ar dy ddarlun hardd i ni. Oesol gofnod gwaredigaet'n Llwythau cred o estron wlad, Trwy gyfryngiad llaw Rhagluniaetb Droa yr Abrahamaidd had. Ffyddlawn dysfc o'r gwaed-daenelliacl, Nod o ...

... ROYAL VISIT TO NORTH WALES. The Earl and Countess of Camngfcon are now mnch interested in the arrangements for the re- ception they are about to extend at their historic Welsh home, Gwydir Castle, to the Duke and Dnchá88 of York. The mam details of the pro. gramme have been settled. On Monday their Royal Highnesses went to Ireland on a visit to the Lord Lieutenant. The visit to North Wales ...

... BARRY COUNTY COURT. Thirty minutes or so was sufficient for his Honour Judge Owen at Barry County Court on Tuesday to dispose of the few cases on the list. Two judgment summonses against W. À. Lowrie, of Cadoxton, were adjourned owing to the fact that neither of the plaintiffs could prove that he was a property proprietor, as one of them described him. Another cage was adjourned in ...

... GAS EXPLOSION. STREET PASSENGER INJURED. A terrible explosion, believed to be due to an ignition of a large accumulation of gas, occurred at 9 on Tuesday evening in a large block of resi- dential mansions in Victoria-street, Westmin- ster, between Stratiion Ground and the Meteoro- logical Office. The force of the exDlosion was such as to lift the roof, part of which fell into the crowded ...

... DIPHTHERIA AT SWANSEA. 306 CASES IN THREE MONTHS. At a meeting of the Works and Sanitary Com- mittee of the Swansea Corporation on Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Ebenezer Davies (the medical officer of health) presented his report for the quarter, which showed that 306 cases of diph- theria and 58 deaths had occurred, the mortality being equal to 2-28 per 1,000 for the year. Alderman Morgan said the ...

... SWANSEA TEAM IN PARIS. LETTER FROM A WELSH RESIDENT SWANSEA LADY DISTRIBUTES FLORAL EMBLEMS. Writing immediately after the Swansea v. Paris football match in Paris on Sunday, a Welsh resi- dent of Gay Paree has this to say :— Neptune was not particularly kind to the Swansea cracks crossing Channel for the first time to try friendly conclusions with the former hereditary enemy—the Gaul. Rice ...

... SLAUGHTERING CATTLE. Chicago, Weduesdvy.-M. Edonard Rod, the distinguished French litterateur, visited the stockyatds here yesterday to witness the slaugh- ter of cattle. Seeing the animals being killed at great speed all around, he exclaimed, Mon JDieu.what barbarism and immediately tainted. He did not recover immediately, aud was carried out. His friend who accompanied him afterwards ...

... A GENERAL'S SUICIDE. PATHETIC INCIDENTS.. Paris, Thursday.—The Figaro publishes the' following particulars from Rome regarding Gen. Marseille who committed suicide yesterday. The marriage of bis daughter with an Italian officer was celebrated in the morning, and the newly- married couple left for Albano. General MarseUi had lost his wife some years ago, and then his son. In eonsequence of ...

... Mr R. S. Wood, the headmaster of St. Luke's School, Bolton, has received a letter from Sir Arthur Bigge, the Queen's private secretary which was written under interesting circum- stances. At the beginning of this year the boys and girls of the school decided to make a present to the Royal children at Osborne of one of the bookshelves for children issued in connection with the Masterpiece ...