... If there is one thing more than A PLEA adother-apart from its dalaes3 FJB -which characterises the wiater ouRSRLVEb. Sdallon at Rhyl it is the eaargy with which the various charitable agencies aod organizations in this town carry on their praiseworthy wotk. Not only do they help the objact they seek to promote bat they also help in a 1 \re meaaare to relieve the otherwise insufferable monotony ...

... We do not necessarily endorse he our correspondents.—ED.} DEAR Sin,-f am glad to learn that Mr Arm- strong never said that teetotallers are of very low intellect, but that they are not of the standard of Gladstone, &c.; bat, my dear sir, Gladstones are not to be met with every day. and this country has as yet only produced one. Perhaps we do not all agree aa to what constitutes greatness, ...

... Albums, Purbes, Handbags, Ac., greatly reduced at Amos Brothers' Stationery Stores, ...

... Smallpox following hard on famine hag, according to the latest news from Mombasa, been making fearful ravages in the Giriyana country, British East Africa, the natives dying in thousands. The Queen has approved of the appointment of the Right Hon. Horace Plunkett, M.P., to be Vice-President of the Department of Agri- culture and other Industries and Technical Instruction for Ireland. Laundries ...

... ST. ASAPH PETTY SESSIONS. Monday: Before Dr. Easterby (in the chair), Dr. A. E. Davies, Messrs Peter Roberts, R. C. Enyon, and W. H. Coward. PGACIUXG CASES. Daniel Davies, Plas Copeley, St. Asaph, and Jostph Lloyd, Plag-yn-Rhos Cottages, were charged by J hn Calvert, with having on the 7th ult., been on land in pursuit of conies.—Mr E. A. Crabbe, prosecuted. Mr Crabbb said that the defendants ...

... On Saturday morning, the body of a man, named John Curran, who lived in Dennison Street, Liverpool, was found lying acrosst he rails in thf goods yardofthe Lancashire and Yorkshire Railw Company. He was shockingly injured, and as lit was found to be extinct the body was removed toths Prince's Dock mortuary by Police-constable 123D. It seems that deceased had been about eight years in the ...

... SHOP HOt-W, TEST CASE. At West Ham on Monday eight summonses were heard against various tradesmen under the Shop Hours Act, among them being one against J. R. Roberts' Stores, Limited. It was stated to be a test. case. In this case a van boy named Gearing was ad- mitted to have worked 82.hours a week, and the lad stated that he seldom went into the shop unless it was to get the delivery notes. ...

... On Tuesday morning the body of a married woman named Catherine Phillips, aged thirty- three, together with that of her infant child, was fished out of the Birmingham Canal at Wolvor- hampton. The woman left home on Sunday night, taking the child with her, and stating she was going to see her mother. They were not heard of again until their bodies were found. The mother had suffered from pains ...

... DEATH FROU EXCITEMENT. George Clarke, a quay labourer, of Lowestoft, who had been arrested on suspicion of having murdered his wife, was discharged on Monday. The post-mortem showed that the bruises on the woman's face and head were not sufficient to cause death, which was due to heart failure accelerated by excitement.—The jury found that this excite- ment was due to the woman being the worse ...

... Through the kindness of Mrs Fosbery, Bryn Elwy, St Asaph, the whole of the inmates were treated to a first class tea on Tuesday afternoon, the 14th inst. to celebrate the marriage of her tdaughter, Miss Georgina Mary Fosbery to Robert Henry Arrow- sipith, Esq. From early morning the inmates were busy completing their alloted work so as to be in readiness to witness, from the field in front of ...

... SHORT STORY. A VERY GOOD SHOT. She lingered in the verandah of the little bun. galow to catch the last glimpse of the horseman ridmg into the forest; then turned away with a prolonged sigh. What in the world was she to do with herself all the day ? And it wasn't as if it were only this one day-then it wouldn't have mattered; but many yesterdays had been the same, and many to-morrows would be ...

... MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Rhyl Urban District Council waa he)d at the Council Chamber, Town Hall, on Monday. There were present Mr A. L. Clews. J.P. (chairman), Dr. Girdlestone, Dr. Frichard. Captain Ktinge, Measra J. H. Ellia, E. P. Jo-ea, David Grimths. J. W. Jonea, C. W. Berrie, W. EIwy Witiiama, Thomas Wbit!ey, P. Moatyn Williams, Robert Jonea, J. Frimston, A. Maltby, and ...