... CYCLING. Half-Mils Championship ef South Wrilss. Tho foiiowing have entered for the half-mils bicycle championship of South Wales, which is to be run c-ff at the Newport Athletic Club Meet- ing on Whit-Monday afternoon First heat, Eddine, Raymond, Prickett, Baker, and Toombs (Mountain Ash) second heat. Weeks, 0. E. Barrett. Price, Parker.and W. E. Kennard third heat, G. Barrett, Clav, Lang, ...

... THREE MEN DROWNED, The tnwler Bonito arrived at Yarmouth lasfc night, and reported that three of her crew h'?c-n drowned in the North Sea. ...

... A QUEEN WITHOUT COUNTRY. The Queen of Hanover;who reached her eighty first birthday recently, is the oldest Queen in Europe, uoL excepting our own Queen, but like several other Qneens in exile she possesses a title only, and has no position as a ruling Sovereign. Although the Queen of Hanover has now been expatriated for 33 years, she never permits her- self to speak in an unkind or harsh ...

... Leisure and I, John Wesley is reported to have once ga-d have long been strangers to each other. Btrt for the efiect of the Bank Holiday Act that would be the compulsory fate of thousands who are now enabled to enjoy the leisure, if it can be designated leisure, of five days a year 1 There never were such times as these for leisure.seeking and holiday-making. Train and steamboat companies ...

... PATTISONS, LIMITED. The Reconstruction Scheme. Ijord Stormontb Darling, in the Court of bcs- Son, Edinburgh, to-day, heard counsel on the inswers to the petition of certain creditors of Pattisons, Limited, in favour of the reconstruc- tion scheme of the London syndicate. The liquidators say that should the reconstruction scheme be adopted the outcome to the creditors would be L377,000, subject ...

... GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY STRIKE I Montreal, Tuesday.—The Grand Trunk Rail- way have ordered their truckmen, who went on strike for an increase of wages yesterday, to return to work in 21 hours. The strikers, how- ever, show no sij.;n of yielding, the men being apparently regardless of results, and both sides seem determined to tight to the bitter end. There are rumours that the engineers a.re ...

... A Wife's Immoral Earnings. At Cardiff Police Court to-day (before the Stipendiary, Mr T. W. Lewis) William Daviss (24), described as a bookmaker, was charged on remand with living in part on the earnings of prostitution between April 17th and 30th. The case revealed a shocking condition of affaire, inasmuch as it was the prisoner's own wife upon whom he preyed. Rose Davies, of 24, Godfrey ...

... The annual dinner of the Newspaper Society was held last night at the Holborn Restaurant. Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid, the president, occupied the chair. Sir Walter Beeant, responding for Litera- ture, remarked that nowadays there were very few authors who were not journalists. That over- lapping of literature into journalism made jour- nalism literature, and was perhaps the greatest benefit that ...

... A HOLY YEAR. Rome, Thursday.- -This morning the Pope solemnly approved the Bull proclaiming this year a holy year. Monsignor Dell Aqaila, accom- panied by a. large, body of clergy, then proceeded to St. Peter's, where the Bull was read to the public. The Bull will be read in the public pla-ces of the city to-day.—-Central Jtfegfc ...

... YANKEE YARNS. Iieportorial Rivals. A reporter named Jones, on a daily in St. Louis.vas detailed to interview the governor of another State, who hkcl slipped into the city on a secret political mission. He learned to his dis- gust that .Jackson, the star reporter of a rival sheet, was on to the fact, and proposed to call in an hour. Acting on inspiration, he sent up a card bearing Jackson's ...

... Dreyfus Scandal. EXPIATING THE CRIME OF OTHERS. Who Are the Traitors P «ris, Tuesday. —The Politique Coloniale to- day publishes an article on the Dreyfus case by Louis Henrique, the editor, who says :—' It 18 hardly any longer a secret that there has been Reason, that there is a traitor or even two traitors, and that the prisoner of Devil's Island is SxPiating a crime committed by another, if ...

... New York, Mondtty.-The Herald states that Mr Iselin is the managing owner of the Colum- bia. His interest in the boat is at least 20,000 dollars. When she is commissioned he will take charge of the preparations for the trials with the Defender. If theColnmbia issuccessful rgamst the Defender the still greater responsibility of bring- ing her up to the line in perfect condition to tteet the ...