... Principal: Well, did you get that money owing by Smith ? Collector I'm sorry to say I did not. There were a number of Smiths at that address, all of whom denied being your debtor. One even threw me out. Principal: That's the one. Call on him again. ...

... HOW TO SECURE PEACE. Speaking at Ramsgate on Saturday night Lord Charles Beresford said that a thoroughly efficient and well-equipped British Navy would do more even than peace conferences to maintain the peace of Europe. He suggested that if those concerned in the Peace Conference were really honest in their desires for peace they could do Nothing more likely to secure that end than to induce ...

... In the Probate and Divorce Division on Monday (before Mr J ustice Barnes) Keighley v. Keighley was the petition of Mrs Edith Valentine Keighley for a dissolution of her marriage on the ground of the alleged cruelty and adultery of her husband, Frederick William Donald Keighley. There as no defence. Mr Barnard appeared for the petitioner, who is a palmist, and is known by the name of Satan- ...

... Charles Hume (23), french polisher, with no fixed abode, was charged at North Londoi with burglary at 23, Grosvenor-road, Canonbury, and with stealing goods to t b u val no of L3. Ile v; as, charged with assaulting servant in the | i'onse. Caroline Petty, a nursemaid in the employ cf the prosecutor, said that she and her fellow-' servant saw to the locking up of the house at 11.30 on Friday ...

... Yes, yes, admitted the gashing yoang thing at the Women's Club pink tea in my narrow circle of self I feel pent up cramped I I would expand Well, exclaimed the practical young woman in the brown dress, if she feels like that why in goodness does she lace herself so ? But those present received ths suggestion coldly. Freddie, do you know what the BibJo says about a lie ? said his nlotber ...

... DISTRICT COUNCILS. Merthyr Councillors' Amenities. On Wednesday at the meeting of the Merth) Urban District Council under the presidency of Mr Joseph Owen, J.P., Alderman David Davies, npon the reading of the minutes, asked whether the Council was enabled to grant a licence fc another slaughterhouse to a tradesman in Pont- morlais without having first rescinded a previous resolution upon the ...

... Vienna, Saturday Night.—Information has been received here of further outrages committed by the Kurds in Haza Bulanik, Under the pre- tence of searching for Armenian agitators, detachments of the Surd Militia Cavalry, known as the Hamidie, barned and plundered the town of HoschgeJdi and several Armenian villages. Shocking outrages are reported to have been committed on the unfortanate Armenian ...

... Railway Collision. MANY PERSONS INJURED. CARDIFF TRAVELLERS IN PERIL. Abergavenny Driver and Fireman Hurt, The Press Association Crewe correspondent telegraphs that about midnight on Saturday a railway accident of n, frightfa! character occurred by the collision of a number of railway goods waggons in the immediate neighbourhood of W;nsforcl, near Crewe Station. It appears that a local goods ...

... Mr Samuel Smith, M.I., has been appoint^ one of the English representatives t0 the Pair Presbyterian Council, which. ja jq n^^in ggp. tember inWftSlMBStW1! ~m;;tJlace of atiLjiobert- WuHff, ...

... The adjourned meeting of the creditors of Wm. Morris, builder and contractor, 14, Greenfield- terrace, Penygraig, was held on Tuesday at the officg of Mr W. L. Daniel (official receiverin bank- ruptcy), Merthyr. The gross liabilities amounted to £2,599 198 9d, of which JE2,295 w&s due to four creditors, who were fully protected by securities, which were, in fact, estimated to yield for the ...

... 105 WHALES STRANDED. Thurso (says a correspondent) has provided a real sensation in the laying out on her beach of 105 bottle-nosed whales. It is certainly a spec- tacular novelty, and after a week or two it be- comes an olfactory novelty. The longest measures 25ft., and its weight would be about four tons. They were shepherded by a few boats from midday till 8 or 9 p.m., when with an ebbing ...

... The man Pelican, who is charged with the murder ot a man r.amed Kingdom at Swansea! is said to be destitute, and consequently a. move- ment is on foot to raise the necessary funds for his defence at the Assizes. The Rev. E. 3. Wolfe, chaplain of the St. Nicholas Seamen's Church, is actively interesting himself, and it is hoped that the necessary or £.30 will be forth- coming. At the police ...