... 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 ...

... WESLEYAN TEA PARTY AND CONCERT The first treat given to the Scholars of the Wesleyan Sunday School in the new Chapel took place on Thursday week. In the after- noon a numerous aompany sat down to an excellent tea which was provided in the new schoolroom. The ladies who presided at the tables were:—Miss Owen, Bodrhyddan Miss Jones, Bryngwyn Villa Miss Hughes, Shop, Dyserth In the evening a ...

... TUESDAY Befora Dr. A. Eyton Lloyd (in the chair) Messrs R. M. Hugh Jones, W. H. Coward, R. C. Enyon, J. Foulkes, and A. L. Clews. BREACH OF THE FACTORY ACT. North Wales Patent Brick Company (the Ce.ndy Brickworks) were charged by Mr John ruiditch, Inspector of Factories, with having on the 12th of September retained in their employ, a young person named Thomas John Jones, for more than seven ...

... THE CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT AGAINST THE ST. ASAPH POST MASTER. VERDICT OF SENTENCE. At the Ruthin Assizes on Monday before Mr. Justice Bunknill. Charles Totphineon, late postmaster at St. Asaph, was indicted for embezzling the sum of from John Kendrick Jones at St. Asaph on April 10. He was also indicted for embezzling the sum of £100 entrusted to him by John Starbuck on August 4, and forging a ...