... TO THE EDITOR. I Sir,—I notice in your issue of Saturday a letter from a correspondent who subscribes himself Honour First, contradicting certain state- ments conta,ined in a letter of the 30th ult. Now sir, in the first place I wish to state that the letter did not emanate from the management of the Cardiff Railway Company, but that I myself am the absolute author. Furthermore, I publicly ...

... Victim to Sea Sickness and Heat Apoplexy I An inquest was held this morning at the lown Hall, Newport (before Mr Lyndon Moore, borough coroner) on the body of Arthur McKeown, 22 years of age, a native of Maryport,who died on the voyage round from Whitehaven to Newport. Firemen are very scarce at Whitehaven, and Captain Walter Duff, of the s.s. Trafalgar, on Friday last telephoned to his agent ...

... I SITUATION TO-DAY. The Press Association says that up to noon to-day the situation had undergone no chauge. and, as both masters and men point out, then can be little or no alteration for a few days, when the departure of vessels will necessarily bring about a more aocute state of affairs, as the men seem determined to bring matters to a head. The masters, however, are as confident as they ...

... TWO YOUNG MEN DROWNED. At Beaumaris, Anglesey, on Satarday evening three young gentlemen from Liverpool were pro- ceeding in a pant to their yacht, when the craft capsized. Two of the occupants were drowned, but the third succeeded in swimming ashore. The bodies of deceased, a Mr Harry Laog and his cousin, whose name is at present unknown, were recovered on Sunday morning. ...

... WELSH STREAMS RUN LOW. An expert correspondent sends to a London contemporary the following piece of information Last year, it will be remembered, the Usk, Wye, and other Welsh rivers were not so much affected by the drought that then prevailed as the English rivers generally. Occasional showers, and even aoniet.imes a, good downfall oi rain, kept them from falliDg to a very low point. This ...

... As we pointed out the other day, the new police order about the removal of dead bodies from the Thames is a piece of very silly officialism. After a long ihuceossion of scandals, a practice bad become established whereby the palice removed to the nearest mortuary all cases of Found drowned. The new order lays it down that the overseers, not the police, must re- move the bodies in future. The ...

... A. middle-aged man named David Davies, employed as a waggoner by the London and North-Western Railway Company at Carmarthen, was engaged in the shed on Thursday morning, when he was caught between a pig truck and a loaded flour waggon, and terribly squeezed. Fortunately the pressure was almost immediately removed, but the poor fellow had to be conveyed home and attended to by a. doctor, and it ...

... New York, Saturday.—Jefferies and Sharkey will fight at Coney Island Sporting Club on October 23r«l —Renter. ...

... I The Siege of Fort Chabrol PROSPECT OF AN ASSAULT. Paris, Saturday.—The siege of Fort Chabrol has now lasted three weeks, and at length there seems some prospect of an assault on the Anti- Semite stronghold. At any rate, the premises have been surveyed by M. Girard, director of the municipal laboratory M. Brunei, the chief architect of the district and M. Cortier. an officer of the fire ...

... CARDIFF. A?moriRl Hail.—Tho services at this place wiU be condacted to-morrow by t: this p!ace Joshu:t. Rev. Setb  ?obn Krox13roadway Weslovan Chapel T:?v J Baillie, of Tredega?ville, eÙn fha.pel t?is object ou Monday evening ecture on this Charles- street. -The newly- appomiti .ed circuit ministers will pre h newly. ,L,I) P OI.UI. ?C d eirctlit rninist-er,; will preach at this place to ...

... SPORTING ITEMS. King's Messenger is going through a mild dost cf phvsic at Cole s place at Oakham. Jeddah has been a tip for the Cesarewitch (says Arion ), and his admirers may note that Le has to carry 8st 121b, as against Sst Ulfa allotted to mm as a three rear old. Cclada. backed Last se30n for the Cambridge- óhjre, but deterred from showing faer true form ihencaS edStern'haSOrlly ?? ?0? S? ...

... Ten per cent. of the natives of Hawaii are lepers. Three-fonrths of the wheat consumed in Great Britain is imported. Pencils to the number of 250;000,000 are annu- ally made in Bavaria. No metaphyiscian ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the truly grateful. It is a remarkable fact that dyed furs retain their colour longer than skins which have not been dyed. British India has the ...