... A GOODS TRAIlToFF THE LINE. About 4 o'clock on if™to rouS sion which did considerable wL prroeJiS from tho Went to the E»»t Dock, n^t^hine the check points opposite the Cardiff MiIKn« Company's mills the engine left the rails, andbeftw0. it cooW be brought to a standstill dashed with violence mto some waggons which were being shunted by another eugtae into the Great Western siding. The force ...

... A TRIP TO THE EAST. MR A. THOMAS, M.P., ON SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. There was an excellent attendance at the Cory Memorial Hall on Saturday evening, when Mrs John Evans (Eglwysbach) gave her lecture on A Trip to the East under the auspices of the Cardiff Temperance and Prohibition Association, and in order to raise funds towards liquidating the debt incurred by the late Mr Evans in start- ing a new ...

... SOUTH WALES COAL TRADE SLIDING SCALE COMMITTEE. DISPUTES AT COLLIERIES. A meeting of the Sliding Scale Joint Commit- tee was held at Cardiff on Saturday, Sir William Thomas Lewis being in the chair and Mr Wil- liam Abraham, M.P., in the vice-chair. There were also present—on the owners' side, Messrs Archibald Hood, Edward Jones, E. P. Martin, W. Jenkins, Joseph Shaw, M. Wolstenholme, and W. ...

... THRIFT AND OLD AGE. DR. RUTHERFOORD HARRIS UPON ODDFELLOWSHIP. Two large gatherings of members of the Man- chester Unity of Oddfellows took place at the Tradesmen's Hall, Newport, under the auspices of the Loyal Temple of Peace Lodge, which is the oldest lodge in the Newport district. N.G. F. E. Dibdon presided at the first meeting, at which Dr. Rutherfoord Harris, Dr. J. Lane, Messrs G. Geen, ...

... TIED PUBLIC HOUSES. I Novel Action by Cardiff Overseers. I The overseers of the parish of St. John, Car- diff, have determined to oppose the managers of local premises under the Licensing Acts in every case where the outgoing occupier is in arrears with his rates. Such action is novel, and its effect will doubtless be watched with interest. The decision was arrived at owing to the fact that ...

... SHOCKING AFFAIR IN LIVERPOOL. The Liverpool police arrested a woman on Sunday night in connection with a terrible affair which occurred in a eourt house in the Vauxhall; road district. Early on Sunday morning a drunken quarrel took place among the occupants of the hottee, during which it is alleged the woman threw a lighted paraffin lamp at a man named Tracy ana his wife. The lamp was broken, ...

... Trinity Wesleyan Church.—At the evening service on Sunday the resident minister, Rev. A. Barraclough, announced that in all probability it was the last time the congregation would use the present building, as it had been sold to the Church of England authorities, to be re-erected in a Newport suburb. The structure was pur- chased by the Wesleyans as a starting point for the cause in the ...

... PRACTICE AT THE CARDIFF ARMS PARK. Despite the threatening weather a good number of local players turned out at the Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday for practice. Wickets were pitched in selected spots, and balls were sent flying in all directions, the usual crowd of juveniles quickly restoring them to their respective owners. The Cardiff Club ha3 arranged to have a practice, but the recent rain ...

... WHISKY AND CHESS, Total abstainers with a fondness for the chess board will learn with pious horror of a not con- nected with their iavourite game which I hey pro- bably never suapected. If Mr J. H. Blackburns's assertion is correct, there is not a siugie chess master who sports the blue ribbon. The English champion imparted his startling information in the course of conversation with a reprer ...

... The Stella Disaster. I » PRESUMING DEATH. I In the Probate Division to-day (before the President, Sir Francis Jeune) application was made for leave to presume the death of Mr Geo. Henry Eldridge, of Chiswick, who was supposed to have perished in the Stella disaster. It w. s stated Mr Eldridge had lived with his sister and her husband at Chiswick, and that he left home on March 29th with the ...

... SMOKE LAMBERT AND BUTLER'S FLAKED GOL LBAF HONETDEW, in packet and tins, of all Tobacco, nists and dealers throughout the Kingdom. 107e COUGHS Cared and Consumption Prevented. :Farherf; Balsam of Mulberries is positively the best Cough Cure ever discovered. There is nothing to equal it. 71d and 10id per bottle of all chemists. —Charles Fargher.Chemist, Splott- Bridge,Car dill. 128e LR ...

... ANGLO-FRENCH QUESTION. PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATIONS. We have reason to think (says the Observer)1 that until the now treaty with France with refer- ence to the delimitation vi British and French spheres of influence has been approved by the French Chamber, Lord Salisbury has no inten- tion of pressing the French Government for a settlement on any of the other questions which are the subject of ...