... 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 ...

... LEEDS BREACH OF PROMISE ] SUIT. ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER'S COURTSHIP. Mr F.dwin Gray, the under sheriff of York, sat with a jury to assess damag-es in a breach of pro- mise action, at the Leads Town Hall Thsplaintiff was Miss Maud Ethel Spencer, t il( daughter of n. deceased member of the Leeds City Council, now residing with her mother a.t Barley Lodge-road, and the defendant, George Arundale ...

... BUTE DOCKS, Saturday. There was only a small attendance on 'Change to-day, as is usually the case on the last day of the week, and the steam coal market ruled quiet in all departments. The week has been a very irregular and unsatisfactory one from nearly all points of view, owing to the continued scarcity of tonnage and high freights, and, unfortunately, at the time of writing, the outlook ...

... CARDIFF RAILWAY COM- PANY'S MEN. DEMANDS IGNORED. QUESTION OF TENDERING NOTICES PLEBISCITE TO BE TAKEN. A moof-ing of the radlwaymea employed by the Cardiff Railway Company wM held on Sunday afternoon at the Cory Hall. Cardiff, for-the pur- pose of considering the position of affairs between the men and the company, Sir William Thomas Lewii?, representing the latter, having refuaed to consider ...

... STAMPEDE FROM DAWSON CITY, New York, Saturday.—Advices from Dawsou City (Yukon), dated June 19, record a stampede in the direction of Cape Nome, owing to the reports of the marvellous rickhness of the goid discoveries there. The advices state that one minar was seen who took out 6,000 doiiajs in one week in nuggets ranging in weight from 30 to 143 ounces., The men who have reported the ...

... LLANDILO. Tampering with Signal Wires.—Before Mr A. S. Gulston, Colonel Davies-Evans, Mr J. Lewes Thomas, and Mr L. N. Powell, Lewis Jonea, a haulier employed by the Rhos Colliery Com- pany, was charged with connecting on May 8th two electric wires used as means of signals, with the result that an electric bell in the engine-room was kept ringing unceasingly. Mr J. W. Nicholas prosecuted and ...