... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... [SPMIAI/TO THE BARRY DOCK NEWS j There lives at Barry Docks-which was de- scribed by Mr Justice Grantham whiile addressing a juty in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice as recently as the 12th ultimo as a most important commercial centre-a lady who has experienced, so to speak, a visit to the con- fines of the great unseen. If twelve months ago anyone had been bold ...

... NEXT WEEK'S FUNCTIONS. I THE MAYOR'S RECEPTION. I Elaborate Arrangements. I The proceedings within the Eisteddfod Pavilion form after all bnt a part, though a large one, of the many functions to be held during the week in connection with the great Pan-Celtic gathering at the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1899. The Eisteddfod may be compared to a huge planet which, wherever it migrates, ...

... A Case for the Assizes. I At Pontardwe Police Court yesterday the decision of the Bench was delivered in the Allt- wen Church assault case, in which the rector of the parish alleged that he was prevented and obstructed by threats in celebrating divine service by police and by the curate in charge of Alltwen. The summonses were against the Rev. John Walter Rees, curate, and P.O. Jenkins, of the ...

... (COPYRIGHT. THE ACCUSED — PRINCESS. By ALLEN UPWARD, Author of Secrets of the Courts of Europe, The Prince of BalkHtan,cThe Yellow Hand, &c SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER. Great Britain has ordered tfie King of Zee lend to deliver up the famous State Rnby wrongfully «old to him bv-Jung Bahadur, emissary of the Maharajah of Bburaai, who hoped to obtain the means of declaring- war on the ...

... 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, ...