... A CRUMLIN DEALER MISSING. Mr Charles Jones, Crcmiin, who is known throughout Wales as a cattle dealer, has bean missing from his home at Crosspenmain since- Tuesday week. Prom inquiries the revives have elicited that Jones changed a cheque at Newport on the day he left home, bnt nothing further has been ascertained. ...

... New York, Tuesday.—At Albany yesterday evening two lads named McHenrv and Martin met to box six rounds. In the third round j McHenry struck Martin a heavy blow over the heart. Martin dropped at once, and was found to be dead.—Central News. ...

... MILITIAMAN ARRESTED. Private Tilburn was taken from the Sucks Militia at Buckingham by two detectives from Uxbridge yesterday afternoon in connection with the mysterions drowning of his wife at Uxbridge Tilburn bad leave from bi8 regiment last Saturday and went home to Oxbridge, re- turning to camp on Wednesday He is said to have admitted quarrelling with his wife, but lie denies all knowledge ...

... SLEEP FOR SKIN-TORTURED BABIES and rest for Tired Mothers in a warm bath with Cuticuba Soap, and a single anointing with Cutictjba, purest of emollient skin cures. This treatment will afford instant relief, permit rest and sleep to both parent and child, and point t* a speedy, permanent, and economical cure in the most distressing forms of itching, burning, scaly, and crusted skin and scalp ...

... The appointment of Sir John Madden. K.C.M.G., as Lieut -Governor of the Colony of Victoria and its dependencies, has given great satisfac tion in the Colony, and particularly in Melbourne, where Sir John is well-known and is very popular among all classes of the commun- ity. The new Lieut.-Governor was born in 1844, and was educated at the Melbourne University, where he graduated P. in 1863, ...

... 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, ...

... TO-NIGHT'S MEETING IN CARDIFF PARK HALL. THE meeting of the English Church Union, to be held in the Park Hall, Cardiff, to- night, is arousing considerable curiosity in some quarters and expectation in others, and many inquiries have been made as to the definite object and aims of that asso- ciated body of militant Churchmen over whose destinies Viscount HALIFAX so vigorously presides. It is ...

... ALEXANDRIA DECLARED INFECTED. Gibraltar, Saturday.—The Gibraltar Board of Health to-day deciled that Alexandria is an infected port and that arrivals thence are not to be admitted, but that coals and provisions may be supplied to them in quarantine.—Reuter. Cairo, Sunday.—The total number of plague cases up to date at Alexandria is eight, one fresh case having occurred yesterday. There have ...

... CARDIFF WAIFS AT BARRY ISLAND. The excellent movement which culminated in the establishment of Pearson's Fresh Air Fund enabled 500 poor children from the Roath district, Cardiff—250 boys and 250 girls—to enjoy a pleasant holiday on the sands at Whitmore Bay, Barry Island, on Saturday. This is the first contingent of the season, during which it is hoped that three other batches equal in number ...