... The Man About Town. I What a c; rush of events, a plethora of engagements face one for the coming week. The week beginning on Saturday promises to be one of the busiest on record, even in the history of Cardiff. The business is the engagement in pleasure, for all the doings I have in mind are connected with holiday-making and sight-seeing, and whilst business is undoubtedly behind some of it, ...

... TO-DAY'S MONEY. I [SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.} LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Opening, 11.20 a.m.—Stock Marketsjqaiel and prices ,how irregular tendency, without special feature. Consols dull, being & lower for money. Rupee Paper firm at 4 advarce on purchases. In Foreign Bonds French Threes weak at J decline, whilst Paris Bourse is closed to-day owing to the national fete Turkish Third Group and Portuguese ...

... TO-DAY'S MEY. [SPECIAL. TELEGRaM n LONDON sTO,CforFtS&NGB- Opening, 11.20 a.m.—The general this ,ly settle- ment on the Stock Exchange begtl of d ^Horning, and is engaging the chief attend0 one, 4lers, but the account is comparatively It.SDS show i fresh business is limited, whilst prices .n„ Ucreased weakness on the uneasiness resp^ 0B th^?nrse °* political affairs in the Transvaal a5Lrfc ...

... THE DRUID AND THE DRINK. Some entertaining conversation ensued at Whitechapel County Court yesterday in a case in which a young barman named Eric Burke sued his late employer, a Mr Coveney, for wages in lieu of notice. In answer io Judge Bacon plaintiff said that when he returned from his evening out Mr Coveney said he was drunk. But I assure you, your Honoar (added plain. tiff), that I was ...

... Action for Seduction. RE-HEARD CASE AT MONMOUTH ASSIZES At the Monmouthshire Assizes, Monmouth yesterday (before Mr Justice Day) the action of Beer v. Williams was again opened. It was an action to recover damages for seduction brought by Mr Wm. Beer, farmer, High Mead, Llanfair, near Abergavenny, against Charles Williams, also a farmer, of Great House Farm, Llan- gattock, in the same ...

... THE TIN PLATE TRADE. I Strike at 0!d Castle, A BLUKe is now proceeding at uiu vaSlle Works, Lianelly. The aunsalers, who are mem- bers of the Gas Stokers' Union, whose repre- sentative, Mr Rutcbings, occupied a seat at the joint conference, had presented notices demand- ing the list or 187:1- at once, and these notices terminated on Saturday last. It was thought that these men, like the ...

... Love and sea-sicknesa are in the same class- but they cannot be described. Evil is wrought by want of thought says the poet. Very true, and much is wrought by thoughts of want. Asleep.— What time did the hotel catch fire? Midnight. Everybody get out safely? All ezcept the mght watchman. We couldn't wake him up in time. I can't believe that this wireless telegraphy is possible. Why, ...

... MOTOI VEHICLES FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC. THE FORTHCOMING TRIALS IN LIVERPOOL. In cornec~ion with the trials of motor vehboles for heavy tu.-ffc. wvhich are to take place in this citv between the 31st July an ...

... THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO MEL GLADSTONE. TO THE 30ITRoS OF TEE LIVERPOOL MHOUT. Gentlenen,-It is probably within the know- ledge of your readers-that, at a meeting convened at Grosvenor House on June 2 ...

... - ?? SALMS PoplU LIEX 2u.FRr TUESDAY, JULY 1 i THIS MORNING'S NEWS IN BRIEF. The Grand Duke George, brother of the Czar, and heir to the throne of Russia, who has long been suffering from an incurable ...

... FROM OUR LONDON| CORP~ESO~DEN I Loyuos, MONDAY Nxorar. Everotbody has been in a state of mental chaos to-day in reference to the news from South Afri.a, and 'Mr. Chamberlain himself had to cerifess th ...

... I A DAY AT RIV!NGfTOy. TO TEE EDITORS OP THE LIV=EPOOL MERItr Gentlemnen,-Probably not mne in a doen of othe citizens of Liverpool is at all vvindl _on. > ?? of the fact that he is a partner. or share ...