... 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 ...

... It was only on Friday we chronicled the Royal summons to Marlborough House of P.C. Bing- ham, the Cardiff constable who was presented with the certificate of honour of the St. John's Ambulance Association for meritorious conduct on at least two occasions. Now we hear of another case, in which P.C. Hings was the shining light, and it well deserves recognition. It appears that two traps in ...

... On Saturday Dr. Pritchard, assistant to DC. Evans, Llanelly, made a post-mortem examination of the body of a three-months-old child, named Herbert Williams, and an inquest is to be held to-day. The child had been in charge of persons living in Cwmfelin, and its mother, a single woman, is away in service. The circam- stances surrounding ths death have caused A Bensation in the district. ...

... SOUTH WALES FINANCE. íCardiff Account Days,. July 13th & 28th.) Saturday, July 8th, 1899. Business has been quiet and rather de- pressed in the local market to-day. For Mie thing, the London Stock Exchange is closed to-day, and on Monday the carry over in mines will commence. Taff Ordin. ary has been marked down to 83%, the price at which business was done yester- day, but no dealings have ...

... IAONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. > LONDON, Saturday. The Stock Exchange has been closed to-day, consequently there are no transac tions whatever to record in public securities. Money was in active request in the morning, and 2Yi per cent, was paid for advances until Monday. Later in the day, however, money came cut more freely and rates fell away to 172 to 2 per cent., whilst the Bank of England did ...

... At Cardiff County Court on 'ihursday (before his Honour Judge Owen) an action was heard for declaration on behalf of the trustee in bank- ruptcy of Mr W.V. Mumfoid,tobacconist and news- agent, Castle-road, that certain things contained in an inspectorship deed granted by the bankrupt to Mr W. Armstrong, of Leeds, for the benefit of the creditors, were really within the order and disposition of ...

... WELSH GOSSIP. The enterprise of the Baptist Forward Move ment has led to the establishment of a cause oi the moors at Cadoxton-Barry and another Barry Island. In view of a possible outbreak of war in tl: Transvaal, a Neath Pressman is said to hai applied for a post as war correspondent, etatir as one of his qualifications that he would not t' frightened by the din of battle, as he had attend ...

... SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, SWANSEA nAY SIGNALLING STATION Mumbles Lighthouse, Friday.—Wind N.W., strong. Weather, dense fog. Se;t moderate. Passed East- barques Nortoanctie. of Nantes; Marechal de Turenne, of Nantes steamers Pierre Andre, of Havre; Fitz- william, of London Christina, of Waterford Dun- raven, of Bristol; Avon, of Glasgow Glendale, of Tjoudon Racine, of Cardiff. Passed West—steamers ...

... COLLIERY BANKSMEN SUMMONED. On Monday at the Pentre Police Court Stephen Wiltshire, George Chappel, and Radcliff Cook, workmen employed at the Ynysvfeio Colliery, Treherbert, were summoned for a breach of con- tract, the damages claimed being 10s in each case. Mr Dan W. Jones, Pentre, prosecuted. Major Alfred Leicester Lewis, M.E., manager of the colliery, stated that the defendants had ...

... Thomas Sullivan, who is employed at the Ebbw Vale Company's Works, Ebbw Vale, visited Cardiff on Saturday, and on bis return journey called at Newport, and there added to the liquor which he had already taken, with the result that he was unable to make his way through the traffic in High- street and was knocked down and run over. He was conveyed to the Infirmary, where his injuries were ...

... SUFFERINGS ON DEVIL'S ISLAND, Paris, Monday.—The Figaro publishes a letter from M. Louis Havet, member of the institute, giving particulars regarding the ill-treatment to which Captain Dreyfus was subjected during his imprisonment on Devil's Inland. M. Havet says — On his arrival m Guiana Captain Dreyfus was not andeXimmedistelly, but was kept for four days at the bottom of the hold in a ...

... The funeral of William Hammett, the victim of the Milford Haven tragedy, took place at Swansea on Monday afternoon without military honours, the Militia having been disbanded last Tuesday. When the cortege left the home of the deceased at Port Tennant-road for the cemetery a large crowd had assembled, aod all present showed a very sympathetic demeanour. The Rev. W, Evans officiated. There were ...