... BAND OF HOPE UNION. Public Meeting at Cardiff. Under the auspices of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union a public meeting wnb held last niyht in the Park Hall, Cardiff, Ald. Sanders presidiug. There was a crowded audience, which included the Revs. Canon Barker, B. J- Gibbon, London; Alderman Clegg, Lord Mayor of Sheffield Mr Lionel Mandy, Rev. and Mrs Canon Thompson, Revs. J. R. Buckley. J. ...

... PONTYPRIDD POLICE COURT. Unregistered Lodging-house. I This nnmirtj* at the Pontypridd Police Court, (before MBBSTS Richard Lewis, R T. Richards, and E. Edwards, Mrs Williams, High-street, Llangannab, Pontypridd, was fined 10s and coats for keeping an unregistered lodging-house. There were five persons lodging in the house on the day in question, and the defendant and a prostitute were lying ...

... FACTS AND FANOES. In the proper cycling costume controversy the short skirt has the long end of it. Tom: After all. what are kisses good for?— Kitty (demurely) Their fa.c3 value. Woman, says a wit, isn t always backward in her speech, if she does have tha last word. FiroA:lt.-IllissJones-aw-sE6,vs she doesntplay golf, don't you know.—Second It: Aw—how de- lightfully clevah. The author who ...

... 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 ...

... GRIEVANCES OF THE TRADE. The half-yearly conference of the council of Licensed Victuallers' National Defence League opened at Yarmouth yesterday. The President. Mr C. J.Long, of Maidstone,said that teetotalers were using every effort to curtail the privileges of the trade and injure it at every vital point. He urged the trade to secure the support of members of Parliament, so that legislation ...

... BRISTOL MONEY-LENDING CASE An aged couple, named William and Bertha Hale, of NC'Nnhttm, Gloucestershire, were sued at Bristol Comity Court yesterday by Abraham Lazarus, money-lender, of Bristol, trading in the name of Masters, for £ 10 bpJanee on a promis- sory note. They borrowed iE25 from Lazarus, who advertised in the mm of Masters. The agreement was to pay nine payments of J2 each and a ...