... New York, Monday.—A despatch from Havana states that a strike of serions proportions has occurred on the Havana Railway. Two thousand employees were out on Saturday. The manager at Havana has cabled to the chief offices in Lon- don that the men's demands mUF!t be conceded or the company ...

... Chipping Ongar, a little Essex town, with a population of abort 800, appears to be specially favoured in regard to the longevity of its inhabi- tants. Dr. W. C. Clark, who has been personally iuvestigatiug the facts bearing upon this theory, has found that in the one street of which Ongar can boast there are now living twelve persons, four of them ladies, whose united ages total 1,032 years. ...

... USKSIDE TRAMWAY SYSTEM. Mr W. H. Brown brought up the Lighting and Traffic Committee's reDort at the meeting of the Newport County Council to-day, and a graphic little discussion at once arose about the tramway system in Newport, which t appeared has not given unqualified satisfaction. Mr Wil- kinson wanted to know whether the Board of Trade allowed two trams on Newport bridge, and Mr Brown' ...

... Heartrending Stories From the Stricken Districts. A Berlin correspondent writes :-A telegram from St. Petersburg states that scurvy is spread- ing in au alarming degree, through the famine districts. In the Samara Government alone 147 villages have been attacked. The Red Cross Society doles its utmost to cope with the distress. It has had to erect hospitals and establishments for the ...

... THE MASONS' SOCIETY. I Application to Cardiff Council. I Alderman Ramsdale, sitting as chairman of the Public Works Committee of the Cardiff Corpora- tion this morning, said the clerk had received a letter from the Masons' Society asking on behalf of members of the society employed by the Corporation for an advance of a halfpenny per hour and for a reduction of working hours for various ...

... I Cyclists' Haunts. IVIII.-LANRUMNEY AND ST. MELLON'S; A QUIET AFTERNOON'S SPIN. I By PNEUMATIC. Two years ago, good reader, you and I were wont to go a-cycling together. One day we went to picturesque St. Donat's. another we cycled to see those timp-worn cromlechs at St, Duffryn. We went to Fontigary and Wenvoe, and Aber- tiittw,a,id to Sully and Lavernock,and other places, and on another ...

... THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE. An Abergavenny Incident. A pair of lovers at Abergavenny, after series ot difficulties and disappointments, have, says a correspondent, found a way to gain their end, and in spite of strenuous opposition to tie the mat. rimonial knot. The wedding was arranged for Wednesday, at an Abergavenny church. Every thing was ready, the bridegroom waited expec- tant, but the ...

... RIOTOUS STUDENTS. St. Petersburg, Fi,iday.-The Mining Institute here, which has been closed owing to studei.tV riots, will be reopened on the 17th inst.—Renter. ...

... YANKEE YARNS. Failures. I A coroner's jury delivered the following ver- diot on the sudden death of a merchant who had recently failed in business I We the jury find, from the new doctor's state- ment, that the deceased came to his death from heart failure, superinduced by business failure, which was caused by speculation failure, which was the result of failure to see far enough ahead. I A ...

... Yesterday morning Edward Tucker (17), of 7, Middle Taff-street, Merthyr, was killed instantly by a fall of coal at the South Pit, Plymouth, near Merthyr. He was working with a young man named William Snailhan, who had a narrow escape. The boy was buried beneath a mass of coal, and when extricated was dead. ...

... Extraordinary Charges Against a Little Girl. At the Cardiff Police Court to-day (before Mr F. J. Beavan and Mr Benjamin) Alice John (11) was charged on bail with stealing a door mat, value 78 6d, the property of Councillor Mildon, from the doorway of No. 26, Paget-street, Grangetown, on the 13th inet. The mother accompanied the little girl in the court, and was proceeding to say something in ...

... At a meeting of tbiociety of Arts on Wed- nesday a paper on Lhones was read by Mr John Gavey, assist engineer-in-chief and electrician to the Gene?0st Office He bigan by speaking of the traiitters and receivers employed in telephoiand of improvements in the construction Oe circuits between sub- scribers and the excha, but the greater part of the paper WitS devotto a discussion of the methods ...