... JUNIOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE FOR CARDIFF. A meeting was held on Wsdnesday evening at the Railway Temperance Hotel to consider the advisability of forming a, Junior Football Leagne in Cardiff. The following clubs were repre- sented :Cariton Parish Church, All Saints, Old Boys, Singletons, Celtics, Richmonds, Canton Villa, Cantcn Albiona, and Cymrics. It was decided that a, League should be- formed, ...

... X40,000 BID FOR A BRIDE. New York, Wednesday.—Mr John Norden, rich Montana ranchman, is now here seeking a bride. He advertised that he wonld give £40,000 to any plain, practical young woman who would wed him. His hc'-el to-day was so besieged by women that the prol, i letor ordered Mr Norden to leave- He has hired big hall in the Bowery, where he will examine t::e applicants.— Daily Mail. ...

... LATE DR. LAWSON TAIT. Mr Lawson Tait, the famous surgeon, who died at Llandudno on Tuesday, made a somewhat remarkable request during his last illness. He desired that his remains should be interred in a romantic cave in his garden called ô4 Gogarth Cave, which was in olden times within the grounds of the ancient abbey. This request of the deceased will be complied with as far as possible, ...

... EARL CAWDOR. I On inquiry at 7, Princes-gavdsns, London, on Wedensday afternoon, our representative was j informed that there is no troth in the rumour that Earl Cawdor is seriously ill. His Lordship was slightly indisposed a few weeks ago, bat has was slightly indisposed a few weeks ago, but has now quite recovered. ...

... A HUMAN X RAY. j.ioaion, Thursday.—The strange powers possessed bv boy namsd Alfey Brett are being examined by the Society for Psychical Research. He i I the flon of Dr. Brett, chief of the College of Physicians in Boston, and when hypnotised by his father becomes a sort of human X ray, being able to see through solid objects. He describes minutely the bones and other portions of the anatomy ...

... Tod's Marine Engineers' Academy, Pembroke- terrace. -At the examination held in Cardiff this week for engineers' certificates, the candidates from this old-established leading academy wore again the most successful, viz., Mr John Alder- sen. Cardiff, and Mr Tom Warren, Cardiff (firat- class), both at the first attempt, the latter gentle- man after a fortnight's tuition. Also Mr Ber- tram Bunny ...

... A drawing-room meeting in connection with the Cardiff Branch of the Friends of Armenia. Society was held at The Vicarage, Charles-street, on Tuesday afternoon, when Canon Thompson presided over an attendance which included Mrs Lester Jones, Mrs Ca.non Thompson, Rev. J. Williamson, Professor Conway (secretary), Rov. J. E. Dawson, and others. It was resolved to ask Miss Marshall, who is at ...

... FISH IN THE RESERVOIRS. A Clean Bill of Health, At to-day's meeting of the Cardiff Water Works Committee the Engineer (Mr Priestley) reported that he had made inquiries of several authorities as to whether they had been troubled with para- sites on the fish in their reservoirs, He had re- ceived replies from Manchester, Belfast, New- castle, Bradford, Dublin, Sheffield, and Leeds, and with one ...

... I Fifteen Arrests. Bombay,Friday.—As the result of an inquiry in- stituted by Gen. Protheroe into the outrage on a native woman,16 men of the West Kent Regiment have been placed in the cells. Private Horrocks, who was tried and acquitted for ack of evidence has turned approver.—Reuter. ...

... SINKING OF A PILOT BOAT. I On Wednesday it was discovered that the pLot out ter Rival had sunk in the South Dock at Swansea. The cutter had been laid up for some liuio, and it is supposed the hot wither had opened her seams. ...

... Volunteer Manoeuvres. I SHAM FIGHT AT ABERDARE. I Scene from the Mountain Top. It was shortly before 5 o'clock (writes l: The Major ) when after a hot climb up the moun- tain from Aberdare I reached the summit of j G-vversyll, some 1.200 feet above sea level Gwersyll is marked by the remains of an old camp aud is nearly a mile south of Pleasant View, from which it is separated by a sharp ...

... FIRE AT CARDIFF. But for the timely discovery of Mr Leonard, of Gordon-road, there would have been a big fire witnessed in Cardiff on Sunday afternoon. He was walking down The Hayes when be observed smoke issuing fiom a cellar under the promises occupied as a, grocer's shop by Messrs Cooper and Williams. He gave the alarm just in time, for when Second Engineer Jenkins arrived with the reel, ...