... LOCAL PROBATE SUIT. EVANS v. ROWLANDS. London, Thursday—In the Probate Division to-day, before Mr Justice Barnes, the case of Evans v. Rowlands was further heard. This was a suit to test the validity of a will dated 27th of November, 1897, of Mr Edward Evans, Mill Hill, Michaelstone-le- Pit, Glamorganshire, who died on the 6th of April, 1897, leaving property amounting to about JM50 to the ...

... ; V - 3P ?? 'A'IXOHT TO THE DYHEATH. ;::WevereigettingwelS ovei'tlie trail. In five or six d days more ive would. be at the north' fork of' the Fra le ser. Here:we would:be all right: We could get to Fort Eope without any trouble, for, as luck would i .have it, thle Canadians knew- a half-breed who had a id boat big enough to take us. all down the. 'river.' From there Bob and I iould go'over ...

... 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. ...

... |L 0 CAL NEWS. - LIVERPOOL AND SOflyPORT RAILWAY SERVICE: THE LirETsNiGw EXPRESS.-The article which appeared in the Mercury on Tuesday reviewing the Liverpool and Sonthport railway routes is. we are informed, conducing to a special consideration by the shareholders of the Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway of their anomalous posi- tion. Quite a new light- on the future was ...

... EXECUTION IN THE OLD DAYS. The feeling aroused by the death sentence on Mary Ansell is a reminder that 84 years ago this month London was much excited over the case of another servant girl, Eliza. Fenning, who had beer condemned to the scaffold on a charge of attempting to poison her master, a Chancery- lane stationer. Like the girl Ansell, Fenning was eventually hanged. Five days after the ...

... GLAMORGAN RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. LETTER OF APPEAL FROM LORD WINDSOR. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-I should be glad if you would allow me, through the medium of the South Wals Daily News, as president of the above association, to direct the attention of the public to the serious state of its funds. There is at present a debit balance of JE300, and the expenditure in connection with the forth- coming prize ...

... DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE. CARDIFF. Accident at the Docks.—About half past 9 on Thursday morning a young man named Gilbert Williams, of Marrowby-street, met with a severe accident at the Docks. He was enga ed on the ss Morning Star, which was discharging paving stones for the Corporation, when, through the ? sling slipping, he was struck by a number of ...

... OTTER HOUNDS. Mr Clay's Subscription Otter Hounds will meet next week, water permitting, on Tuesday, at Hart- pury Mill, at 10 a.m., and on Wednesday, at Kelford Bridge, at 10 a.m., both in reach of Gloucester. ...

... STRIKE AT CARDIFF. TLere was a small strike at the Dry Docki, on Thursday, the rivet warm' rs to the aumber of about 30 de. manding Is per day extra As trade is good and labour not t:,I)(\ plentiful the advance was con- ceded. whereupon work was immediately re- sumed. ...

... BALTIC WOOD TRADE. Riga, Thursday.—The market is steady at the following quotationsSleeper blocks, 43s 6d; lathwood, 16s; red laths, 48s 6d; white laths, 42s; white deals, 3in. by 9in.. £ 7 5s; white battens, 3in. by Sin., 96 ditto, 3in. by 7in., 45 17s 6d. ...

... TuiE cottage stands back from the roadside with a wilderness of currant and gooseberry bushes betwveen it and the white palings. After the eeriness of the farmhouse on the hill the road is not unpleasant. There go by many gipsy vans on their way to the fruit-picking, innumerable cyclists, a few tradesmen's carts from the country town seven miles away, and on Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays ...

... TO THE turrell ?? DAILY NZTS Sir,-My attention has becn called to your article ?? a long interview with M. do Wesselit sky, where this gentleman expounds the Russian point of view on the Fiunnih question. I trust you will, with that generosity which is such a markied feature in your paper, grant me sufficient space in3 your columns for a statement of 6i0me facts whicb will place the question ...