... CARDIFF. Shop Assistants.—A meeting of the Cardiff branch of the Shop Union was held at the Centr&l Hotel on Tuesday evening, M A. Pearse presiding. Arrangeaaents for dse visit of Mr Turner, o £ the Central Council, to further the work of organisation were reported, and it was decided tc.t he should address a meeting on Tuesday., November 7th. An interesting address was given by Mr T. Spencer ...

... A Shebeen at Pontypool. At Pontypool Police Court on Saturday Kim James was charged with selling beer without a licence at the Glyn Ponds Cottage., and John Michael, Wm, Howell. Rowland Saunders, Tbos. C&mm, H. Giilam, Thos. Gardner, H. Phillips, and Jas. Knipe were charged with adding and abettinsr. The cottage is situated in & lonely position Oil the side of the Glyn Ponds, some two or three ...

... | CHILDREN'S HOUR, AND ORDER OF THE ROUND TABLE. By LADY GREENSLEEVES. The Queen's New Donkey. One of the best-known of Royalty's pets used to be the pretty donkey which drew the Queen's chair about the grounds of Osborne and Windsor. Her portrait has appeared in many photograph groups of her Majesty and members of the Royal Family taken out-of-doors, and the Queen was very fond of her gentle ...

... MUSICIANS. LOCAL RXAMINATION& mHE English Winter Local Examinations JL will beheld about the first two weeks ia December. The Forms and Fees of intending Candidates most be sent the General Secretary. Mr. KDWARD Chadfikld, 19. Berners Street, London,W. before October 15th. The Syllabus and full information will sent, post free, on application. St. Aispb (Denbigh) Rural District Council St. ...

... 14,000,000 FRANCS GONE ASTRAY. The Paris correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says ;—The French Treasury hits made a most diiagreegblo ibyid perplexing discovery. It has found that the trifle of 14 millions of francs has unaccountably gone asti,av-e got lost, in fact, in some unexplained way. When M. Peytral was making np the Badget for 1899 he stumbled on what struck him as most ...

... A fisherman resident of an island on the Huoa, the Tasmanian Thames, and one of the loveliest of Anstralian rivers, was peacefully pursuing his occupation in a boat, and had commenced haul- ing in his net, when he became aware of the pre- sence of a strange object. Turning round to obtain a clearer view of the intruder, he found himself confronted, at a distance of a few yards, by a sea ...

... THE HOUSEHOLD. October is the time when we begin to think of flowerB for the winter, either of getting them for ourseleves or, if generously disposed, of sending them to friends not so well endowed. Cuttings may be sent quite long distances by post in per- fect safety if they are wrapped in cotton slightly moistened and then in oiled paper and packed carefully in a box. thereby greatly ...

... (Published by Special Arrangement.) TALES OF THE WEIRD AND THE WONDERFUL By RICHARD MARSH. Author of In Full Cry, The Beetle, A Mystery, Curios Some Strange Adven- tures of Two Bachelors, Frivolities, &0. (COPYRIGHT.) A PACK OF CARDS. PART~ I. You see these ? They belong to Francis Farmer Colonel Farmer he called himself the Colonel, he was known as among his pals. Did you ever hear of ...

... Justness btt&stz. Sunlight Soap Jj + Adds Comfort in the Work to Clean'liness in the Linen. Deducts the Cares of Washing Day from the Housewife's busy life. ii X Multiplies by two the Life of the articles washed. Divides by two the Hours of labour. Manufacturtd by IS LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED, ) 5oapmakers to the Queen. Port Sunlight, Cheshire. They Touch the LIVER. CARTER'S ABSO loUT EL v CURE ...

... CROSSING THE BORDER CONFIRMED. The Pres3 Association states that accordng to a telegram in the second edition of the Daily Telegraph, the reported crossing of the border by the Boeiu near Yan Keenen's Pass has been con- firmed by the Natal Premier, adding that the Boers are suspicious of our having mined Laing's Nek. The immediate occupation of the Nek is regarded with unconcern. NO COLLISION ...

... A BRUTAL ASSAULT. Tho Birmingham Recorder, Mr J. S. Dagdale, ) had before him at Birmingham Sessions on Tues day afternoon what he described as the wor..t case of assault he had eler heard. A young man of tha lahouriug class named Ernest Johnson after a trivial quarrel with an old man deliber- ately struck him with a glass bottle, bursting one of his eyes. The old man is now totally blind. ...

... DOCK. Runaway Horse.— On Monday afternoon a horse attached to a epiing van bclonping to Messrs Morse, Muudy, and Co., tea dealers-, Cardiff, took fright and bolted down Castleland- street towards Dock View-read, Barry Dock. In tcrning the sharp corner the animal was thrown by the weight of the trap on its side, and liieiolly ploughed its way to the railings. The horse won greatly cut on its ...