... Women Tortured in Hungary. EXTRAORDINARY STORY. I A Vienna correspondent writes :—An extra- ordinary story is reported from Komorn, in Hun- gary. The officials of the municipality of Mocsa, in the Komorn Comitat, are accused of having applied torture to persons imprisoned on sus- picion of theft. It seems that some time ago the safe of the municipality was robbed of nearly 3,000 florins. ...

... A STEAMER WRECKED. Halifax, Monday Night.-The steamer Portia from New York to Halifax, has been wrecked in a fog The passengers were safely pat ashore on Sarabro Island, and assistance has beeu sent there.—Central News. A Lloyd's Halifax,Nova Scotia,message states —Jhe steamer Portia from New York is ashore eat Sambro, and will probably be a total wreck. e pasaengers and crew have been landed. ...

... In a Knicker Suit. I A humorous incident is related in connection with the presentation to the Prince of Wales of the Gold Medallists at the Great Highland Show at Edinburgh. A well-known North Country fiockmaster, who had not expected to win the championship in his section, had gone to the show in a light check knicker suit, and neglected to bring the regulation dress of frock coat and top ...

... Peter Rupert White, an ingenous. looking Austrian lad of 18 years, appeared at the Cardiff Police Court to-day in answer to a, charge of stealing silver Geneva watch, value 6s, the pro- perty of one Joseph Boirnetti, oa the 4th icst. Prosecutor stated that prisoner came np to him in the street, asked to see his watch, and then walked away with it. Prisoner's version of the affair was that ...

... LETTER FROM EMPLOYERS.! Holiday no Precedent. Mr T. Richards, secretary of the South Wales Miners' Fedfration, hi? received the following letter from Mr Dalziel with reference to the miners' holidays this week The Monmouthshire and Sonth Wales Coal- owners' Association, Cardiff, 3rd July, 1899. Mr Thomas Richards, Secretary, Workmen's Representatives on the Sliding Scale Com- mittee, Beaufort. ...

... SPORTING ITEMS. College Green made his debut in a hanter' flat race at Hamilton Park yesterday, and showing some approach to the speed which characterised his two year old career in Ireland, but was sadH missing afterwards, he won in the commone3- of canters. A. E. Wetherall. who is laid up in the Root Memorial Hospital at Newmarket, as the result of his accident with Pisa last Thursday, is ...

... A Coroner's inquest was held yesterday after- noon at Weston-super-Mare ou the body of Kate Palmer, domestic servant, who fell from an upper storey window whilst cleaning it in Church- road, and died soon afterwards from a fractured skull. Deceased had been in one situation for oight years, and her emplouer, Mr Cann, said he did not instruct her to clean the windows, and did not see her on the ...

... THE PARIS'S NARKOW ESCAPE. Whilst being towed from the Manacles to Falmouth on Wednesday night the Paris nearly went ashore again on the ridge on v/hich the Mohegan foundered. One of the German aalving boats cast off the hawser through a misunder- standing, and the liner commenced drifting towards the dangerous shoal. The Falmouth tug Victor, however, responded to the shouts of those on the ...

... (COPYRIGHT.) THE BRASS GUN OF THE BUCCANEERS. By LOUIS BECKE. Challoner was a trader at Jakoits Harbour in Ponape, one of the loveliest of the great Caroline Archipelago in the North Pacific. He was a quiet, but determined-looking man of fifty, and at the time of this story had been living on Ponape for over five years. Unlike the gene- rarality of the white men who were settled on the island, ...

... THE LIARS AT CARDIFF. f Next week Cardiff is to have a visit to the Theatre Royal of Miss Emma Hutcuison a London com^ny in one of the g^s^«coe«jB t rphp Liars, which ran for a whole °Jr J tie Criterion Theatre, Loudon. This Lst nhiv of Henry Arthur Jones has been con- laat Piay ot tie v not even excepting Tufp on hie Shop or The Dancing Girl; The Bauole b P jal pojut of view it is the sii ...

... 92 DEGREES IN THE SHADE. Unless the British climate is goiDg to eclipse everything it has previously done, there must be a. change in the weather shortly (says the Daily Chronicle). The dreadful arithmetical progres- sion of 87deg., 89deg., 9Ideg. must be broken up at all hazards or nobody can tell what ma.y happen. And yet the Meteorological Office goes calmly on predicting fine weather, in ...

... a Lloyd s telegram from Cowes, dated yester- '«j. reports that during a tire which occurred at ■~Mbbiek s Yard, the following seven yachts were burnt :-Ermin. Rosemary, Lora, Aide, Zivolo, Whoohoop, and White Rose. ...