... DENYING A CHILD'S PARENTAGE Sad Case at Merthyr. At the Merthyr Police Court this morning John Mitchell and Catherine Mitchell were charged with being drunk and disorderly in High-street, Merthyr, and with cruelty to ta child, p C. Hughes said that on Saturday night he saw pi-isonres drunk, and they refused to take a child whihc was being offered them by a young woman, who said it was theirs. ...

... RIOTING AT BELFAST. Stoning the Police. I On the return of the Nationalist band from Londonderry to Belfast last night somewhat serious rioting took place. The members started playing against the constabulary orders, atici vigorously attacked the police with stones. The latter, about 150 in number, were driven back, so violent was the fusilade, and two of them were seriously injured. In the ...

... Is there a growing dislike on the part of the average Englishman of physical exer- cises or bodily exertion ? To put it another way, Axe we getting lazy (or should it be lazier) ? The weather may have not a little to do with it, and the enervating situation of Cardiff may have something to do with it, but unmistakably that greatest and best of all exercises, walking, is rapidly becoming very ...

... Tne town of Helensburgh was plunged into oitrkuesis at the busiest hour of the evening on ofttarday owing Lo some water getting into a valve at the gasworks. The streets were thronged and shops busy, and great inconvenience was caused • until oil lamps and candles could b« procured. ...

... XO-DAY'S FORECAST '■on RNGIAff,9. S.W.. Issued at S o'clock last night. North westerly winds, light, fine, but not nettled backing to south-west later less fair. General.—Fine weather is pro- bable in most districts to-morrow, hut an early backing of the wind to south-west in Ireland is antici- pated. ...

... The Glamorganshire Assizes concluded on Tuesday afternoon, and as their Lordships arrived as longfago as the 27th of July the Assizes may be regarded as the longest ever held at Swansea. It is noteworthy that while on the opening day Mr Justice Bruce at the request of his brother Judges gave the Swansea Council a solemn warn- ing that if the Assizes are to be continued in the town new courts ...

... SEA TRIPS FROM BARRY. Atntion is directed to the excellent facilities now Provided bv the Barry Railway Company, conJUncti0n with Messrs P. and A. Campbell, Limited for visiting the Somerset and Devon- shire watering resorts, full particulars of which appear in our advertising columns. A steamer leaves Uarry Pier at 10 a.m. each weekday after the arrival of the 9.15 train from Cardiff and the ...

... At a meeting of the creditors on Tuesday in Glasgow of James and David T. Colquhoun, writers, a stait-ement submitted by the accountants who examined the books of the firm showed liabilities £ 191,000, and assets £ 41,000. This showed that subject to the expenses of realisa- tion the creditors would get 4s 4td in the 4. The whole of the liabilities are David Colquhouii's, The Glasgow city ...

... South Wales Coal Trade. WESTERN DISTRICT COLLIERY CRISIS. Within 10 dfcy £ unless a settlement is effected, 11 collieries, in addition to two already idle through a strike, will stop in West Glamorgan. The notice presented to their men by Western colliery owners, who lately joined the South Wales and Monmouthshire Owners' Association will terminate on the last day of the present month. The ...

... At the Llandaff Police Court to-day Eliza Chippline was summoned for being disorderly at Pontcanna. P.C. Chant stated that defendant was having an altercation with another person and behaving in a very disorderly manner. When warned by the officer she turned round and threw the contents of a beer jug all over him. Fined 10s and costs. John Chaplin, husband of defendant, was afterwards charged ...

... About 11.30 on Friday night the driver of a light engine noticed the planks supporting the rails of Kilkewydd Bridge spanning the river Severn, on the Cambnau line, between Welsh- pool and Aberystwyth, on fire A few buckets of water apparently extinguished the flames. On Saturday uaornidg. however, as the North-Wes- tern mail from London to Aberystwyth crossed the bridge it was seen that fire ...

... THE COMPENSATION ACT. Employers and Medical Certificates. (BY MABON.) Notwithstanding the fact that up to now in this coalfield we have, in common with some other districts in England and Scotland, with very little friction indeed, been able to settle amicably a much larger percentage of claims under the Workmen's Compensation Act than was at first contemplated that we could do, yet there ...