... (COPYRIGHT.) THE BRASS GUN OF THE BUCCANEERS. By LOUIS BECKE. Challoner was a trader at Jakoits Harbour in Ponape, one of the loveliest of the great Caroline Archipelago in the North Pacific. He was a quiet, but determined-looking man of fifty, and at the time of this story had been living on Ponape for over five years. Unlike the gene- rarality of the white men who were settled on the island, ...

... tHE ATTACK ON INSPECTOR MILLS. I At Cardiff Police Court to-day (before Messrs deR0001' ^eavan and Hallutt) Reuben Nnrsell With*! aS a navvy> was charged on remand Mill niously cutting and woouding Charles way3' aQ 1UsPcctor on the Great Western Rail- intent* thS ba,ck 01 thc left ear with a knile- with West--t0 d° h'm K«cvoua bodily harm in a Great diif ^ailw&y carriage .between Ely and Car- ...

... The Transvaal. ( f I FEELING IN SOUTH AFRICA. I THE STATEMENTS IN PARLIAMENT. I SATISFACTION AT PRETORIA. 1 Pretoria, Saturday .-The general tone of the debate in the Imperial Parliament, of which a full summary has been published here, is regarded with satisfaction, but doubt is expressed in official quarters as to the acceptability of the pro- prosed joint inquiry unless it is to inclnde all ...

... WOMEN BRIGANDS. Rome, Mondav.—A brigand band composed of 1 i- « nrrested hoslc BouGveuto. four women h^J»een three attempted They are accused of ftnd a lon^H^of robberies. The leader is Signora Femara Saveno.—Central ews. ...

... fSUPPLIED T;Y MESSRS WF.ATHERBY.] All engagements in Mr Van Hoboken's name- Lord Kilkenny in Mr J. Miller's name—Grievance, Hovlake. Haydock Park engagements—Royal Dove, all Lord Penrhyn's ami Mr E. C. Clayton's horses. Electric Ciirl:(,It, T)c)nlt Shoot. Brighton Cnp-Jllnsa. Brighton engagements-Royal Dove, Glaze, Kil- kenny filly, Maida Vale, Intimidater, Iiookwood. All ...

... NOTE.—Information for this list is invited. It supplied in every case when it is communicated to us. ABERYSTWYTH.—S.S. Michael's and All Angels' Parish Church, 11 a.m., and 6.30 p.m. St. Mary's (Welsh), 11 a.m. and 6.30 pm. Holy Trinity Church, near Railway Station, 11 a.m., and 6.30 p.m. Presbyterian Ch irch, Bath street, 11 a.m.. and 6p.m. EngHch Baptist Church, 6 p.m., Shiloh Chapel, 10.30 ...

... SAD DBATH OF A CARDIFF CHILD. An inquiry was conducted on Saturday a.t Cardiff Town Hall by Mr E. Bernard Reece into the circumstances of the death of Sidney Fepas, aged five, of 3, Agate-street, Roatb, who was drowned in a pond off NewpMt roact on Thurs- day afternoon lasi. A child who was in deceased's company on the occasion said that little Ferris, when in the neighbourhood of tba pond, ...

... A terrible drama was enacted in Brussels on Friday. A man named Bernard, who had been divorced from his wife, saw her taJkinc? to ft shop assistant, and at once drew a revolver and fired four shots at the latter, killing him on tbe spot. The murderer declares that he believed that the dead man was his wife's paramour. ...

... THE ALLEGED MAD DOG -AT FONTABDULAIS. Some of the reports in connectisa with this incident have been very much exaggerated. whole village did not turn out armed with pokers, tongs, and clubs, nor was the dog iyncherl by the villagers. He was taken possession of by Sergeant Lewis and P.O. Sims, and kept at police station until Friday, wbyn a veterinary surgeon from Swansea examined him. He was ...

... A SMELTER'S ACCIDENT BENEFIT. On Saturday evening Mr Ben Tillett, by request, formally handed over to Mr JessE. Stock- wood, a moniber of the Steel Smelters' Union, employed at the Briton Ferry Steel Works, a cheque for £ 100 in payment of the Union's dis- ablement benefit. Mr Stockwood had had his leg ampntated in consequence of some ingots falling upon it. Mr Mecpherson, the organiser of the ...

... A PERILOUS VOYAGE. The fourth of a series of experiments to test the loug-distancc travelling capacities of balloons was made on Saturday, when the aeronaut, Mr Spencc-r, and a friend named Pollock left the Crystal Palace in a favourable north-west wind to cross the English Channel. The balloon was last reported travelling south-east, six miles at sea, from Hastings. The trip proved remarkably ...

... LEEDS BREACH OF PROMISE ] SUIT. ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER'S COURTSHIP. Mr F.dwin Gray, the under sheriff of York, sat with a jury to assess damag-es in a breach of pro- mise action, at the Leads Town Hall Thsplaintiff was Miss Maud Ethel Spencer, t il( daughter of n. deceased member of the Leeds City Council, now residing with her mother a.t Barley Lodge-road, and the defendant, George Arundale ...