... AMERICA CUP. The Rival Yaciief' Trials- New York, Tit--sdav.Ifr Duryen. chairman of the Newport Yacht RaciQK Association, has announced that in addition t' the contest on the 21st inst., the Columbia- and Defender will race on the 25th and 27th.—ReuW. In connection with the irst of the two trials arranged between the Silaixrock and Britannia, the former was taken to Southampton Water this ...

... BRIGAND CHIEF'S GALLANTRY. I Paris, Monday Night.-M.. Chevalier, a French engineer, who was captured some time ago by Turkish brigands in Chalcidis, has been released on payment of a ransom of iCT15,000 by the Porte. When the capture took place the soldier accom- panying M. Chevalier and his wife attempted to defend them. and was shot for his pains. Madame Chevalier fainted. The chief of the ...

... Mayor of Cardiff to be Initiated. I An interesting meotjng of the Cardiff District of the AA.O.F. will be held at the Grand Hotel to-morrow nistbt when his Worship the Mayor (Alderman Sir Thomas Morel) and the towa olirk (Mr J. L. Wheatley) will be initiated members of the Order. The High Chief Ranger (Mr J. P-iide. ...

... SCOTCH MINERS AND CONCILIATION. The Scotch coalmasters and men's representa- tives are meeting in Glasgow to-day to make final arrangements for the formation of a Conciliation Board to come into effect on August 1st. ...

... PENARTH. I The Bpths. -lilt a raeelilag oi the Baths Com- mittee of the District Council on Monday evening the surveyor called attention to a letter in the South Wales Echo complaining that the first-class swimming bath could not be used by residents on three if not fonr nights weekly from 7.30 p.rn.; such occasions being known as club nights. The ba,ths manager denied the statement, and said ...

... A WiFe'8 WORK. Husband Driven to Murder his Chiidt'en. At t.he Newington Coroner a Court, London, on Monday, an inquest wa,H held on the bodies of Ma;¡;garet and Ada Wt1n1, aged five and two-and- a.-hn.tf years respectively, who were found with their throats cat at 11, Botmda.ry.iane, worth, on Thursday last. The father, who, after indicting fo-tal iojuriea on the children, cat his own throat, ...

... diphtheri. a u„0 ta\{en a very severe course at D-?..p-n?C.yemn.m? ?er ?Y?ny? ? ?d the nei?hhounnR lorth, and Dr. rt Jones, ? Rhondda district, • jssae(j a circnlar to all medical o?cer.?s S ?aed a, circuit to ?1 the superintendents o? ? 5 unday schools in the district askin them to co-operate with him in ??r.ct ?km,th? gcourge from .pr?dinp trying to stop ?P?? inQuenti? meeting of further. At ...

... Thomas Rowan, labourer, cf 27, fIewertson. I ?00 d in the ( oc k it ti)'? street, Newport, who stood in the dock at the Uskside Borough Police Court to-day on a charge of theft, failed to convince the magistrates that he took a fancy table mat from an Algerian, who was vending them in a public-house, as a joke. Kowau said that he retnrned to the public-house aud offered the mat to the little ...

... THE PLAGUE. Cairo, Tlitirstl,,y.- Tile total nuniu^. of piaguo cases at Alexandria up to date is 58, of which 21 have ended fatally, while 24 have been cured. Since Suuday last four new cases have occurred One fresh death is reported; and seven cases have been curea.-Pouter. ...

... DEATH OF THE REV. CHARLES GARRETT'S WIFE. Information was received to-day at High&m Ferrers, wafri: the liev. Charles Garrett, of Liverpool, :the well-known Wesleyan divine, has been staying, that his wife died suddenly yester- day. ...

... On Thursday afternoon David Ma.rks, an eaginenian at the Cefn Iron Works, was standing on a ladder at the works screwing some nuts ir a steampipe, when the pipe suddenly burst. He wa.s blown off the ladder, falling a distance of 20 feet, and sustained severe scalds from the escaped steam and other injuries through the fall. ...

... ALL THROUGH THE HEAT. It was all through the heat pleaded a victim to excessive thirst at Cardiff Police Conrt this morning. Mr John Andrews and Mr T. H. Stephens were the sitting magistrates, and were disposed to accept the plea, and defendant wsf eventually discharged. ...