... Helping Him Out of a Difficulty. I Grocer (to shopman): Peter, I owe about three hundred pounds. Yes, sir. I have two hundred pounds in the safe but the shop is empty, I think it is the right time to fail. That's just what I think. But I want a plausible pretext for my cre- ditors. You have plenty of brains; think the matter over to-night and to-morrow morning. The clerk promised to think ...

... DUEL AT BERLIN. Persian Minister's Son Wounded. Berlin, Sunday Night.-A story of a duel with sabres between a Siamese Prince, studying at the Potsdam Military Academy, and one of hia comrades has been going the round of some of the Berlin papers. The Minister of Siam was very much alarmed at the report, and immediately went to make inquiries. So far as the Prince is concerned the anecdote is ...

... THE DISPUTE STILL UNSETTLED. The Hauliers to be Summoned. The Bwllfa Collieries (Nos. 1 and 2 pits), or, to give them the names by which they are better known, the Bwllfa and Nantmelyn Collieries, are still on stop owing to the refusal of the hauliers to work unless a custom which they object to is changed. So far as our correspondent has been able to discover, the exact cause of the iitriltu- ...

... MR BALFOUR ON CHEAPENING LITERATURE. Mr Balfour has written an interesting letter to Mr Robert S. W cod, a Bolton schoolmaster, who has done much for the movement to encourage the reading of healthy literature and its provi- sion at prices wilhin the reach of the poor. Mr Balfour says, I cannot imagine a greater ser- vice to education in its beat and most compre- hensive sense than this method ...

... An Ex-Soldier Charged With Murder. 14 YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE. At the Liverpool Assizes to-day (before Justice Ridley)? Ja.mes Canning (27), a labourer, who had formerly been a soldier, was charged with wil- fully murdering his sister Prisoner gave way to drink, and being left in the house with his sister it is supposed she was trying to prevent him taking something away to pledee, when he ...

... Sunday school anniversary services were yester- day conducted by the Rev. Gwilym Jones (pastor of the Congregational Church, Penarth). The morning showed a good attendance, and at the musical service in the afternoon recitations were rendered by the scholars, and solos by Miss Maggie Griffiths, Miss Alice Morgan, and Mr T. Davies, a special address to children being given by the Rev. Gwilym ...

... I ST. HELEN'S EXPLOSION. 1 Inquiry Opened and Adjourned. At St. Helen's this morning the County Coroner commenced his inquest on the bodies of the five men, Frederick Faram, Thomas Duffy, Richard Swift, William Gibson, and James Grey, who died as the result of the explosion on Friday. The Coroner expressed his personal sorrow at the disaster and hia sympathy with the relatives and frieud3 of ...

... I DEATH OF A JERSEY GENTLEMAN, Mr Edward Mourant, M.A., receiver of her Ir.joAty's revenue in the Island of Jersey, died tfcid mining in his 66th year. Deceased was at jne Vtine the proprietor of tho Jersey Times. ...

... At Cardiff Police Court to-day Kate Doyle, of 8, Evelyn-street, was summoned for letting lodgings to seamen without being licensed on May 11th. Mr Halloran (town clerk's office) prosecuted. The defendant, who carried a baby, pleaded ignorance at the time, and it was said she had since applied to be licensed. The Magis- trates inflicted a fine of 10s and costs. ...

... I THE WEST SHOW. I Winners from Wales. Thursday's judging at Exeter was principally confined to local dairying and horse shoeing. Godsell and Butcher, Bristol, secured three first awards for harness horses. The first award open dairying went to Miss Stubbs, Stafford, with Miss Farrant, Broadclyst, second, and Miss A. Biddle, Chepstow, third. Miss E. M. Cox, Pwll- pen, Christchurch, Newport, ...

... There will be racing p.$ £ t ..w eek atJEpsom an^ Reranton JFaarfc. ...

... THE USE OF INCENSE. At the resumed hearing by the Archbishops of the cases of the Rev. Henry Westall and the Rsv. Edward Ram arguments in favour of the use of incense were continued by the Rev. T. A Lacey, who relied mainly on ornaments rubric, and asked for authorised regulations of the ceremonial. Mr Dibdin followed on the other side, and said much that had been urged in support of the ...