... LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND I HUMANE SOCIETY. The monthly meeting of this society was held in the Underwriters' Rooms yesterday, when there were present Messrs. J. WV. H. Lyne (in the chair), A. M. Anderson, S. IV. Davies, D. E. yrnn, W. M'C. Nicholson, John Rankin, and Charles Roberts. The following awards were made for courage and humanity in saving life:- Vote of thanks (in Russian leather) to ...

... VOLUNTEERING'IN THE WESTERN VALLEYS. On Sunday A Company 3rd Battalion South Wales Borderers inarched to Panteg Church for Divine servce. There was a good muster, and the man turned out cleaii aud smart. The preacher, wis the rector, the Rev. A. W. A. Wjiliamm s M. A, who took for his text Wars and rumours of wars, from which he preached all excellent sermon. The parade was commanded by Capt. ...

... PONTYCYMMER. Aceident.-David Evan?, of Gwynfrya-terrace, has sustained a broken leg through a fall in the 9ft.. aesm at the Ffaldau Collieries. GEOBGE GRIFFITH, one of the r,),A t ?,n ,ecessful of present-day novelists, contrlliua? Mi new etory Brothers of the Chain, to the Times ana South Wales ...

... APPALLING DEATH ROLL A Brave English Girl. The Secretary of State for India has received the following further telegram from the Viceroy on the subject of the disaster at Darjeeliog So far as is known, the following Europeans' were killed :—Five children, Violet Pringle Phoebe and Ruth Wallace, Eric Anderson, and Irene Christian also five children of the Rev. D. H. Lee, Methodist minister, ...

... MANILA SURRENDER I Madrid, Tiiursday.-In the trial of General Jaudenes by the court martial in connection with the surrender of Manila the Attorney-General will demand his imprisonment for lifs.'—Central News. ...

... Rejoicings in Wales. I There was no celebration in Birmingham on the occasion of the marriage of Miss Helen Chamberlain, second daughter of Mr A. Chamber lain, of Moor Cieen Hall, with Mr G. Beesly, on Tuesday, but there were rejoicings on the Welsh estate belonging to Mr Chamberlain. The arrangements were made by Mr Davies, the superintendent. The tenants and workmen, with their wives and ...

... COMPLAINT AGAINST A CONSTABLE. THE MAM WITH THE MOUSTACHE. Mistaken identity. I Tiie Cardiff Watch Committee to-day bad be- fore them a complaint by tvvo young men named Jenkin David Phillips and William Henry Hale, that they were assaulted by P.C. Gnrnoy, 22C, about 1.30 a.m. on August 9th. Their story was that after directing Foresters' delegates to their placciJ of abode, subsequent to ...

... AFTER THE FIGHT. New York, Wednesday.—Pedlar Palmer, after his difeat yesterday, was seen by numbers of Pressmen, who ondeavoured to obtain his views on his downfall. I'm a nice sort of champion, ain't I ? was all he would say. ...

... THE TELEGRAPHIST AGAIN. I Mr Baring Gould, in his new book on Cornwall, describes a painful shock lately experienced by a vicar in that county. In Cornwall there are two adjaciut parishes named Holland and JBliVIand. The vicar of the former was going to town, and hoped that his archdeacon could be induced to take the services at his church the Sunday following. Tho negotiations for this little ...

... EXPLOSION ON A GERMAN CRUISER. Kiel, Tuesday.—An exploelon occurred this nioriiiiiz in one of the boilers on the German cruiser Wacht, belonging to the squadron now engaged in the autumn manoeuvres. The explo- sion was occasioned by the giving way of the stay bolts. Four men were killed and four others slightly injured.-Ilt;-ater ...

... FIVE YEAS' PENAL SERVITUDE. Charles Griffin Deane (45), bank cashier, wbc pleaded guilty at the previous sessions to stealinL nearly E4,000, the property of his employers, the Back of Australasia, was scoteuccd to five penal servitude. ...

... WOUNDED ON A PENARTH DOORSTEP. A yonng woraau named Alma Poland,of Glebe- place, Penarth, was chargod (before Col. Gnthrie and Col. Thornley) at Barry Police Court to-day with unlawfully wounding Amolia Peterson, 34, Glebe-place, on the previous Saturday night. The evidence of complainant was to the effect that when standing on her doorstep talking to some neighbours, prisoner came up, and ...