... SPORTING ITEMS. College Green made his debut in a hanter' flat race at Hamilton Park yesterday, and showing some approach to the speed which characterised his two year old career in Ireland, but was sadH missing afterwards, he won in the commone3- of canters. A. E. Wetherall. who is laid up in the Root Memorial Hospital at Newmarket, as the result of his accident with Pisa last Thursday, is ...

... A Coroner's inquest was held yesterday after- noon at Weston-super-Mare ou the body of Kate Palmer, domestic servant, who fell from an upper storey window whilst cleaning it in Church- road, and died soon afterwards from a fractured skull. Deceased had been in one situation for oight years, and her emplouer, Mr Cann, said he did not instruct her to clean the windows, and did not see her on the ...

... THE PARIS'S NARKOW ESCAPE. Whilst being towed from the Manacles to Falmouth on Wednesday night the Paris nearly went ashore again on the ridge on v/hich the Mohegan foundered. One of the German aalving boats cast off the hawser through a misunder- standing, and the liner commenced drifting towards the dangerous shoal. The Falmouth tug Victor, however, responded to the shouts of those on the ...

... SERIOUS RIOTS IN NEW YORK. I Hand-to-Hand Fights. UPWARDS OF 100 ARRESTS. I New lork, Thursday.—Serious rioting occurred here last night, and scores of people were severely injured. Crowds of men, women, and children stoned every car in the Second-avenue, aDd all kinds of missiles were thrown from the housetops and windows. The rioters barricaded the streets and spiked the cable slots. There ...

... Alleged Assault by a Sweetheart. I Eliza Mears, of Hackney Wick, London, the young woman who on Sunday night week received serious injuries alleged to have been in- flicted on her by her sweetheart with a heavy hammer, died last night. The young man named Preston will now be charged with the capital offence. ...

... THE WEATHER. I In Cardiff a pleasant breeze modulated the strong effect of the sun to-day, and made the da.} somewhat more bearable than Weduesday. Messrs Spiridion's thermometer at 3.30 p.m. registered 86 degrees in the shade. ...

... DEATH OF A CYCLIST. On Saturday Mr John°.on, jeweller, of Bir mingham, rode on his bicycle from Birmingham to Llangollen throughout the day in the hot sun. On arriving at Vroucysylltan, in the Vale of Llangollen, about 8 o'clock in the evening, he fell from his cycle and was conveyed by passers- by to the Britannia Inn, where life was pro- nounced extinct. A Coroner's inqnest was helet this ...

... FIGHT WITH TRAIN ROBBERS. New York, Tuesday.-A n exciting fight occurred yesterday in New Mexico between a band of train robbers and a sheriff's posse in pursuit. Thopur- suers overhauled the robbers, who offered a des, perate resistance. The sheriff was killed, and two of the posse were wounded. The robbers even- tually got away after one of their number had been killed and another wonnded. ...

... BREACH OF PROMISE CASE SETTLED. A Relief on a Hot Day. At th2 London Sheriff's Court to-day the breach of promise case of Uordell v. Cause was settled by agreement, the pluntiff accepting £250. The Sher:ff remarked that on hot like this the jary would be glad to be relieved of stich P, case. ...

... DEAN VAUGHAN MEMORIAL I The Princess Henry of Battenberg visited Ken- sal Rise yesterday and laid the first stone of the new church which is to be the memorial of the late Dean of Llandaff, so well known as Master of the Temple, and the centre of a college mission similar in most respects to that of Christ Church, Oxford, in Poplar, and Trinity College, Ca.m- bridge, in Camberwell. Kensal Rise ...

... YACHTING. I Royal Irish Yacht Club. I On Wednesday, in the Kingstown Regatta, the race for the large yachts fell through. Bona. was the only entrant. Thei-a wttii a good contest in the race for yachts exceeding 52 and not exceed- ing 79 rating. The wind Mas south-east and a bit liuky. Tatty displaced Astrild on the last round, and the finish was :—Tutty ) winner), 3b. 58min. 54sec. Astiild ...

... PONTYPRIDD MAGISTRATES AND VACCINATION. Question in the House of Commons. I Mr Alfred Thomas has given notice to ask the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the reports in the Cardiff daily papers of the 13th instant of a case brought before the Pontypridd Police Court, in which the magis- trates refused to grant the application of the Rev. William Griffiths, Ph.D., for a ...