... WHY JESSOP LAUGHED. I A correspondent from Cheltenham, who saw the Gloucester and Surrey match, writes A ra,ther funny incident occurred at the local theatre, where both teams hn.d been invited. At one point the hero comes in, to find the heroine in tears. The villain had iust left her, and the brave fellow was doing his best to comfort the sorrowing maiden. This is how be put it. I Witet has ...

... ATHLETICS. I A. E. Kennard, the well-kpown Newport pro., mnde a successful attack early on Tuesday on the 100 MILE, Welsh unpriced road record. Starting from the Westgate Hotel at 4.55 a.m., he covered the Newport record course in 5b. 4oiiiiis., thus easily beating the previous best for this course by 23 minutes, and also the record for the Cardiff course by 12 minutes. The checking arrange- ...

... AN ABSCONDING INNKEEPER. ihe affairs of Evan Bowen, of the Cambrian Inn, Maesteg, an innkeeper and a builder, ha.ve come into the hands of the Official Jieceiver in consequence of debtor being adjudicated a bank- -apt. A meeting of creditors was called for to. day at the offices of the Cardiff Official Receiver, but there was no statement of affairs, debtor baving absconded, and the estate ...

... SPORTING ITEMS. The latest yaxn about Xeaie is that she was ridden to hounds once upon a time. Racing will take place next week at Derbv on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, at Windsor on Friday, and at Sandown Pa.rk on Saturday, Sportiug Sketches' list of horses worth backing: Taroliuta, Master Willie, Palatia, Menteith, Bishopswood, Miss Coilingwood, and Lisbeth. A note may be made of the ...

... TO-DAY'S MONEY, [SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.] n «n5D0N STOOK EXCHANGE. 11-20 a.m.—Stock Markets amr-t in view ut the House being closed to-morrow to'bt folk,wed w- carrying over day in Minine Shares on andm other securities on Tuesday fw ,c being & lower for account. Rupee PaDer Foreign Bonds also without alS.on^ Horned ways irregular-Metropolitan J lower m absence of buyers other few buyers of J « ...

... I Woman Saved from Herself. I A woman named Irene ColwiU, wife of John Col will, in the employment of the harbour authorities, has attempted to commit suicide. She took a quantity of vermin poison, and was found unconscious on the floor of her house by her son. Dr. Payne, with the aid of the stomach pump, brought the woman round. She took enough poison to kill, but aid was so quickly at hand ...

... RELENTING WIVES AND OTHERWISE. The case against James Daley, hobbler, New- porot, for assaulting and wounding his wife, Julia Daley, one night last week, again engaged the attention of the magistrates at Newport Town Hall this morning. A police officer was called to the house where the Daley's reside, and found the wife with head and face bandaged. She accused her husband, who was also present ...

... THE GUERIN SEIGE. I I Beleaguered in Want of WatAr. Paris, Tuesday.—Complete tranquillity prevail to-day both in the Rue de Chabrol and its approa- ches, order being maintained, as it was yesterday, by Republican Guards and a number of detec- tives. Tbi3 morning the besieged, fearing an attack from gendarmes posted in the house ad- )oining their own on the Cite d'Hauteville side, soaked part ...

... A RANCH IN PAPilS.1 The boys called him 1; Frisco because he aaiisd from the Golden Gate city. and considered it appropriate whan he dubbed ills apartment the rancn. The room in question was one of many in a large house on the Rile de Yangirard. and faced an open court paved with asphalt, upon which opened a camber of ether apartments occu- pied by lodgers, of whom some made a well- feigned ...

... SHOOTING AT GRANGETOWN, 3rd V,B. Welsh Cardiff Detach- ment. ANNUAL COMPETITION. The annual shooting competition among the members of the Cardiff Detachment 3rd V.H. Welsh was held at the Grangetown Range, Cardiff, to-day. The principal competition is open to members of the detachment who have attended 15 drills and who shall have fired his class by August 19th. The first prize is a cup (value ...

... Pantyffridd Wood, Berriew, Montgomeryshire, forming part of the estate of Mr Humphreys Owen, M.P., was yesterday afternoon the scene of the greatest forest fire known in the district for 30 years. The wood covers 200 acres, and in a very shor time 15 acres of larch and spruce were in flames. The blaze was tremendous, and was visible for miles. This fortunately attracted a arge number of people ...

... Prisoners in the Dock. I At Tewkesbury to-day Frederick Roden, of Birmingham, and James Tuft, of Wolverhamp- ton, were remanded charged with breaking into a residence at Coombe Hill, near Tewkesbury, on Wednesday and stealing therefrom X13 in gold, a lady's gold watch, and a considerable quantity of jewollery. Prisoners, who it is alleged affected ail entranse through a small window at the ...