... SALUS POPLI Las m THIS MORNING'S SEWS iN BRIEF. The Archbishop Benson memorial in Canterbury Cathedral was on Saturday un- veiled by the Duchess of Albany. The 40th annual meeting of the National Mile Association opens to-day at Bisley. Tke report of the Indian Currency Com- mittee was issued last night. The majority of the members recommend that the rupee should have a fixed legal rate of Ls ...

... Thermometer and Barometer. READINGS AX' 2 A.M. TO.DAT. PBm- DNto I- 60 1 tisea . 3 31 AM. - - 6'39 PH.L Sets .. 857(M. 927 A.M. Ulgh WRLerat Aber. 2?33 A.M. _deen, a. 2 a50 P.M._ 9kj The baromet r bas fallen ; _ _ weather wet and unsettled. . TO-DAY. (July 10, 1839.) TO4)AY. - FORECASTS FOI 'YO-DAY. The rTollowing forecasts of weather for oo-day. were isued from the ...

... .1 THE PROP&SiD NEW POORHOUSE FO1R ABEDEEEN. REPORT ON THE SCHEME. The Works Sub-Committee of the City Parish Council of Aberdeen report that they have had under consideration the advisability of building a new poorhouse, or of making one or other of the present poorhouses suitable for the requirements of the parish when the fatuous poor are removed to the new Lunatic Asylum. Regarding the ...

... 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 eight o'clock, says a sister who nursed plague r patients for a year at Poona, writing to The Hospital,' V tIl three night nurses came on duty. I must confess that night duty was gruesome, to say the least of it, and I we were never sorry when our week of it was over. . Imegine a vast field studded -with dimlylighted sheds, each one containing plague patients in every stage of e acute ...

... VQLUNTEER NEWS. ey FIELD fDAY AT RIPL EY CASTLE. b It On Saturday the lest Vol. B att. West III Yorkshire Regiment (York), under the 'V l conmand of Col. Kearsley, had an in- ve terestinag series of field movements in 2n the park at Ripley Castle, near :Earro- es gate, by kind perinssion of S iir H 1. tl he Ingilhy, Bart. Tue weather was fine lW and, warm, thre companies forming the al e ...

... NEWPORT BOYS IN TROUBLE. I The Uskside borough magistrates to-day had to deal with a round dozen of lads of the period, who amused themselves by imitating their betters, but in the wrong places. A batch of five newsboys who played cricket in Market-street to wile away the time whilst waiting for the evening papers were fined Is each. Four newsboys were also fined ls each for gambling with ...

... THE SORROWS OF MARIE CORELLf. A feather of malice wings the shaft of humoor in the latest story of Miss Marie Corelli. She is at present staying at Stratford-on-Avon, in a house opposite a lady's school in which are many pia.nos, on which pieces for two and four hands ara daily peiformed, with damaging effect upon Miss Corelli s nerves. In desperation she wrote to the lady principal of the ...

... The Cricket Season. W. G. GRACE'S REVtEW OF THE WEEK. The 'Varsity match at Lords commenced on Monday last in dull and dreary weather. Cham- pain won the toss for Oxford, which, as a rule, is a great advantage, but on this occasion, as the ground was on the soft side, was, I think, rather a disadvantage. Although a heavy shower ieM on Monday evening, the weather kept nne after- wards, and the ...