... Bar, Fran 'loco, Tuesday Night.-The steamer as arrived with a million and a half of dollajg Wortb of gold from Klondike.-Central News. ...

... No fewer than half a dozen stalwart protec- tors of the peace had their courage considerably shaken on Tuesday evening. These six police- men, members of the Shropshire Constabulary,bad according to their weekly custom travelled from Market Drayton to Whitchurch for the purpose of taking part in drill exercise, and were return- ing home in a brake drawn by a single horse. On turning a bend in ...

... At the Old Bailey to-day three young men named Leadborogh and Weston, who ha3 been convicted on a previos occasion together, were sentenced to eight years penal servitde high- way robbery with violence on an old lady near the Victoria Docks. They were chased, and one was overtaken by a cyclist and the other by a woman, who had followed him a couple of miles. This witness now complained that in ...

... Gossip and Incidents. (SPECIAL T15LEGRAM TO THE ECHO.) Goodwood. Friday.—As usual on the last day of the Goodwood meeting there was a great fall- in-off in the general attendance, but the Rhyl and patrician visitors stayed on to see the finish, Warm weather of the delightful sort already en- perianced during the week continued, and the magnificent course, if a bit dusty in places, afforded ...

... TO-DAY'S MEY. [SPECIAL. TELEGRaM n LONDON sTO,CforFtS&NGB- Opening, 11.20 a.m.—The general this ,ly settle- ment on the Stock Exchange begtl of d ^Horning, and is engaging the chief attend0 one, 4lers, but the account is comparatively It.SDS show i fresh business is limited, whilst prices .n„ Ucreased weakness on the uneasiness resp^ 0B th^?nrse °* political affairs in the Transvaal a5Lrfc ...

... YOUNG CARDIFFIAN'S SAD DEATH. A singularly popular young Cardiffiiin has just died in the person of Mr Bertie Dingle, Con- naught road. He was attacked with acute pains in his stomach that necessitated an operation, which was duly performed, but iu spite of the un- tiring efforts of his medical attendants he gradu- ally sank, and at the early age of 19 years died on Saturday last. He was a ...

... THE DRUID AND THE DRINK. Some entertaining conversation ensued at Whitechapel County Court yesterday in a case in which a young barman named Eric Burke sued his late employer, a Mr Coveney, for wages in lieu of notice. In answer io Judge Bacon plaintiff said that when he returned from his evening out Mr Coveney said he was drunk. But I assure you, your Honoar (added plain. tiff), that I was ...

... LIP READING. I The Dsaf Mute Lad and the Transvaal. What was in the papers this morning ?'' asked Mr Van Praagh yesterday, of a deaf mute ad. Something about the Transvaal, And what is the trouble in the Transvaal ? The Boers don't want the English to have the fran- chise ? What is the franchise ? Freedom, and to be allowed to vote, repliedftlie boy. Do you vote ? No, be is not old ...

... OPENING TO-DAY. Monmouthshire Summer Assizes were opened to-day at the Shirehall, Monmouth, before Mr Justice Day, who was accompanied by Mr C. W. E. Marsh, of Newport (who is high sheriff for the present year), the Rev. T. IX Lister, St. Mark's, Newport (high sheriff's chaplain), and the Mayor of Monmouth (Colonel Walwyn.) There were seven cases in the calendar and nine prisoners concerned. ...

... The captain of the steamer Camperdowu, which has arrived at Glasgow, reports to the owners that he spoke Captaiu Andrews, who is crossing the Atlantic from New York to England in an open boat. He spoke Audrews on the 20th of June in Ion-. 7224 W., lat. 38-59, clear weather and a moderate breezo prevailing. C-tptain Andrews declined all assistance, and reported all W'll. ...

... A PLUCKY BOY'S DEATH. An inquest was held at Newnham on Wednesday touching the, deaths, which occurred on the 17th, of Victor Thomas (9) and Reginald Louis (8), the sons of Thomas Phillips, the keeper of the ferryboat on the river Severn at Newuliam. The verdict was That Reginald Louis Phillips died from drowning, having got out of his depth, and that his elder brother sacrificed his life in ...

... JiRNDALE HAULIERS- J| • TO I HE EDITOR. /lay I ask you to insert the lemwj ir' Atioa of a statement which appeafi a co jfcsue cf the 27th instant in the report* ?°HStrict meeting:, viz., Tbat it waa tm f. it the hanlieis employed at the ForndAW> {iaies had beeu granted 4d per day J|»e standard. I beg to state tli«* ^3 L hao existed with the Ferr.daio hi' > y j r,ilvv,„»p bsia Vieeu asked for ...