... MARRIAGE OF MR LOUIS HARCOURT. The marriage of Mr Louis Vernon Harc-ourt, eldest son of Sir William V. Harcourt, with Miss Mary Ethel Burns, only daughter of the late Mr Walter Hayes Burns, of New York. and North Myms Park, Hatfield, Herts, and 69, Brook- street. Grosvenor-square, London, took place at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, 011 Satur- day in the presence of a very large and ...

... CARDiFF SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL. A meeting of the Ladies' Bazaar Committee in connection with the proposed new hospital for seamen at Cardiff was held in the Grand Jury Room on Monday. The Mayoress (Lady Morel) presided over a large attendance of ladies, and the Mayor (Sir Thomas Morel) was also present. The question-of appointing a secretary in place of Mrs Ward, who had resigned, was deferred till ...

... KETCH SUNK AND TWO LIVES LOST. On Wednesday the 5.8- Tweed; of Glasgow, a. well-known Swansea trader, of 575 tons, and owned by Messrs William Sloane and Co., Glasgow, left the South Dock on the evening tide bound for the Clyde, and when jost below the Mumbles Head, and before reaching the Mixen Bell Buoy, she collided with the dandy or ketch Three Sisters. The smaller vessel quickly sank, and ...

... Extraordinary Charges. Catherine Page, a respectably-attired little of 15, living at 17, Redlaver-street, Grangetown, was changed before the Stipendiary atCar diff Police Court on Thursday with obtaining a miscsllane- ous quantity of goods from various persons on false pretences, in the first case evidence was given showing that Page had obtained two pairs of boots from Mr Arkell, bootmaker, ...

... A most remarkable accident occurred ]are on Saturday uizlit on the London and North-Western Railway at Winsford, Cheshire. A goods train was on a loop-line in connection with Verdin's works when a signal was given which was intended for a Carlisle goods train on the main line, but which thd driver of the local train imagined was for him. The result was a series of complications in which three ...

... 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 ...

... THE LATE DR. NAUNTON DAVIES. IN the death of Dr. Henry Naunton Davies the Rhondda Valleys lose the doyen of the profession. It is incredibly difficult to understand the length, breadth and depth of the mourning which his departure has set moving among the people. The secret of Dr. Davies' grasp upon the hearts of the people has always been unfathomable to those who had only a superficial ...