... Additions to the Relief Fund. j The Mayor of Southampton's Stella Relief Ftsnd to day reached £ 1,800. Sir Barrington Simeon and Sir Charles Scotter, two directors of the Sonth- Western Company, have contributed 450 each. The body of Mrs Henney, of Folham- loa-d, London, was landed at Southampton this 'ttiomiag, and that of her husband is expected to. morrow. ...

... SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ABERGAVENNY PUBLICAN, An inquest was held at the Police Station t2- day (before Mr J. B. Watford, coroner) touching the death of John Joseph Clarke (57), landlord of the Station Hotel, Brecon-road. Alice Horton said I am a nnrse employed to look after the children, and had been there for four years and on Thursday night assisted in the bar from 6 till 11 o'clock along with ...

... A P/lember of the House of Lords as a Co-respondent. The official list of probate and matrimonial causes to be tried at the ensuing sittings, which commence to-morrow, has been issued. The undefended divorce list is unusually heavy, there being 152 suits for hearing. The defended cases, without juries, number 62, while there are 24 actions to be tried by common juries. Byar. rangement, no ...

... The Stella Disaster. I AN UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH. The Captain's Anxiety. A Guernsey correspondent states that Alder- ney fishermen have searched the Casquets for any indication of a collision. but so far without success. They are unanimous in saying that the Roque Noire is the large rock that those aboard the Stella assert they saw loom ahead imme- diately prior to the collision, and that the ...

... WILL OF THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA. Probate of the will,which bears date 1st August, 1898, of Henry, fourth Marquis of Anglesey, of Plasnewydd, Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, who died on the 18th of October last, aged 63 years, deputy lieutenant for Staffordshire and Anglesey, honorary colonel of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, and the Royal Welsh Fnsiliers, and formerly commander of the Liverpool ...

... rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE;, ECHO.] i Derby, r nday.—Heavy rain has been falling for some time in the Midlands, and it continued with force up to the hour for racing. The going was in very slopp, condition. One would have ex- pected a small attendance under such circum- stances, but the gathering was not at all bad. The lot entered for the Quarndon Plate turned out, and the favourite Worksop ...

... I The Man About Town. The Cardiff Corporation was in a mood for protesting yesterday against what have been called Corporation Picnics. The exer- cise is not new,for I remember a long series of protests against outings and big parties and long bills of expenses. It arose once in the Fianance Committee, and it seemed almost as if the Committee would dare to question the items on a big bill, for ...

... -p THE WRECK OFF SAUMTON. HOW THE CREW MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED. At the inquest on the body of the cook Frederick Davies, who was drowned with the captain when the Bude ketch Joseph and Thoma was wrecked off Saunton, and whose body was found on the sands by cyclists, the jury returned a verdict of Death by drowning, adding that if when the vessel was in distress off Baggy and the adjoining coast ...

... [FACTS AND FANCIES.1 This is bracing weather. 11 Yeri I never before met so many men who wanted ';est enough for a night's lodging.' De clam ain't very handsome, said Uncle Ephe, an' he ain't strut aroun' laik de peacock but he got de pearl jes' the same. What is non-sequitur. Uncle Aleck ? A non-sequitur is when a widower advises a widow to marry and then doesn't propose. Oar new ...

... ITEMPEST A S WRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. FISH - ING FL E ET SWEAVIiPT OUT OF HARBOUR. CARDIFF VTESSEL IN THE GALE. CAPTAIN, M11ATE], AND THREE MEN LOST. .eaIvy ga.los, veering from caest to north, svcept over the British Isles throughlout Thuns- day nislt and l Friday. As a result tics usual dislocation of telograpth wires has boen ex- cercenced, and no idear call yet eo formed of the full extent ...

... wALES DAY BY DAY Aberarntini Choir comnes out in a London paper nas thie Alyrahain Choir. A A Cardif minister who recently launched out in his sermon against Sunday 'buses had a cab waiting outside the chapel to take him to catch n a train. It is thought in Welsh circles in Cardiff that t the town will be officially recognised as the l capital of Wales when Coustcillor Cochfara S beccmes ...

... I I TEE WRECK OF A BRISTOL | STEAMIER. PLUCKY CONDUCT OF THE CAPTAIN'S WIFE. A Ililford correspondent sends additional par- ticulars cencerning the wreck of the Cato in the Bristol Channel on Friday night. When the vessel was sinldng the crew endeavonred to launch their boats, and one was successfully alaken from the davits and launched. The captain took comnnand of this boat, but a heavy sea ...