... Dr Parker a.t the noon-day service at the City Temple on Thursday said the Island of the Devil. on which Dreyfus suffered, should be burned outtof existence or planted as 8rarden having memories of repentance or sorrow in it. Restoration must mean untold things to Dreyfus, but how was France to be restored ? He would net give three months' purchase for the tranquility of a nation acting as ...

... CARDIFF. Saturday Evening Channel Trip.—A channel- trip is announced by Messrs Campbell to Cleve- don and Bristol on Saturday evening, leaving Cardiff at 5.45 p.m. The trip advertised to Cleve- don and Bristol on Monday, July 10th, will not be run. Infirmary.-Register of patients, week ending July 4th, 1899. in-patieats-Admitted during the week:— Medical and surgical, 22 ophthalmic, 6 total, ...

... LOCAL PROBATE SUIT. EVANS v. ROWLANDS. London, Thursday—In the Probate Division to-day, before Mr Justice Barnes, the case of Evans v. Rowlands was further heard. This was a suit to test the validity of a will dated 27th of November, 1897, of Mr Edward Evans, Mill Hill, Michaelstone-le- Pit, Glamorganshire, who died on the 6th of April, 1897, leaving property amounting to about JM50 to the ...

... NEWPORT VIRAGO SENT TO PRISON. Maiy Ryan, one of Newport's notorious charac tcrs, better known by her maiden name of Mary Lettine, who is the wife of Patrick Ryan, was sent to prison for two months for being drunk and assaulting Police-officers Foulkes and Pen y- .the former she kicked several times, and she spat in the face of the latter. The woman, who dis- turbed the Emlyn Cross-street ...

... The Cardiff Liberal Associations will hold their annual outing to Brecon on Wednesday next. The journey will be over the Rhymney and Bracon and Merthyr Railways, which, after leaving Merthyr, will take the party through a succession of beautiful valleys past the Dolygaer Lake, the source of Mertbyr's water supply, to the Torpantu Valley, and thence to Brecon. Luncheon and tea will be provided ...

... Newmarket, Friday.-Itwa-u,ideol summer afternoon, and many more visitors-than nsual stayed to see the meeting to a close. In accord- ance with, custom racing started at an early hour, but none too early, thanks to the discretion uStjd l in restricting the programme to half a dozen races and a match. The last-named event opened proceedings. Lesson was Sir E. Caasel's selected and Teafight Capt. ...

... WAB PREPARATIONS. MORE ARTILLERY FOR SOUTH AFRICA. AUSTRALIA OFFERS TROOPS FEELING AT THE CAPE. THE PRESENT SITUATION. STATEMENT BY MR CHAMBERLAIN. BRITISH WARSHIPS IN DELAGOA BAY. Lourenco Marques, Tuesday.—H.M. cruise r Doris, with Rea-r Admiral Sir Robert Harris, Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station aboard, and the gunboat Widgeon, have arrived here ...

... SAD DBATH OF A CARDIFF CHILD. An inquiry was conducted on Saturday a.t Cardiff Town Hall by Mr E. Bernard Reece into the circumstances of the death of Sidney Fepas, aged five, of 3, Agate-street, Roatb, who was drowned in a pond off NewpMt roact on Thurs- day afternoon lasi. A child who was in deceased's company on the occasion said that little Ferris, when in the neighbourhood of tba pond, ...

... A terrible drama was enacted in Brussels on Friday. A man named Bernard, who had been divorced from his wife, saw her taJkinc? to ft shop assistant, and at once drew a revolver and fired four shots at the latter, killing him on tbe spot. The murderer declares that he believed that the dead man was his wife's paramour. ...

... THE ALLEGED MAD DOG -AT FONTABDULAIS. Some of the reports in connectisa with this incident have been very much exaggerated. whole village did not turn out armed with pokers, tongs, and clubs, nor was the dog iyncherl by the villagers. He was taken possession of by Sergeant Lewis and P.O. Sims, and kept at police station until Friday, wbyn a veterinary surgeon from Swansea examined him. He was ...

... A SMELTER'S ACCIDENT BENEFIT. On Saturday evening Mr Ben Tillett, by request, formally handed over to Mr JessE. Stock- wood, a moniber of the Steel Smelters' Union, employed at the Briton Ferry Steel Works, a cheque for £ 100 in payment of the Union's dis- ablement benefit. Mr Stockwood had had his leg ampntated in consequence of some ingots falling upon it. Mr Mecpherson, the organiser of the ...

... A PERILOUS VOYAGE. The fourth of a series of experiments to test the loug-distancc travelling capacities of balloons was made on Saturday, when the aeronaut, Mr Spencc-r, and a friend named Pollock left the Crystal Palace in a favourable north-west wind to cross the English Channel. The balloon was last reported travelling south-east, six miles at sea, from Hastings. The trip proved remarkably ...