... 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. ...

... The following mails are despatched from Liverpool to-day:- To the Continent of Europe (joining morning mail from London).-Box closes G.P.O. 9 oO p.m and 11 p m. daily. To France, Belgium, and the Continent of Europe (London night ?? closes ?? 1 15 p.m.; witn id. late fee, 1 35 p-m. Letters pro- paid id. late fee may be posted in Lime-street. Station until 1 58 p.m. To Austria, B'elgium. ...

... (01jr vartraits MiA. ALFREID l orAoTr, of Woodfield, Werneth, O!dham, was born on May S, ISS8, at Chadderton, where his father was then engaged in the cotton-spinning industry in company with the pre- sent candidate's grandfather. His parents being members of the Society of Friends, he was sent to the Quaker school at Kendal, and later to Grove House, Tottenham, and he subsequently took a B. A ...

... [NATAL PARLTIAMENT AND Si'tATION.- APPROVAL OF IMlPERIAL GOVERNIMENT POLICY. (Pnxss ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPECIAL.) Pietermarit'aburg, Wednesday. In consequence of a notice of motion on the Transvaal question, given by Mr Baynes, for to-day's sitting of the Legislative As- sembly, there was a. practically full attend- ance, every member being present except one, while the public galleries were ...

... wnDLThG OF COLONDL STEWART 1 MIKDENZT. l The marriage of Colonel Stewart Mackenzie of Sesforth and Brahan Castle, Ross-shire, to Miss Mary Steinkcopff, only daughter of Mr Henry Steinkopff of Lyndhurdt, Sussex, and 47 Berkeley Square, London, was soleminised yesterday after- noon at the Speaker's Church, St Mlargaret's, Westminster, in the presence of a large and fashionable gathering. The ...