... At Newport Town Hall to-uay James Belt, painter, appeared on a warrant for assaulting his wife and not appearing to a, summons. Prisoner decided to obey the mandate to appear at Wed- nesday's Conrt, and was apprehended. The wife told a pitiful tale of ill-usage. She was p-ille:I out of bed, and her husband afterwards tried to trangle her. He earned nothing since August, but got money for the ...

... TO-DAY'S MONEY. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Opening, 11.20 a.m.—Business continues very quiet in the Stock Markets, and prices show irregular ten- dency pending further decisive news from South Africa, especially Natal, respecting the movement ol British troops. Consols, in which the monthly settle- ment will be completed to-day, rule iirm at ftd- vance for money. Iiupce Paper unaltered. In ...

... Unsuccessful at Cardiff. Tsnders for the supply of cast iron pipes w er opened at a meeting 01 the Cardiff Water Works Comraittae. There were five tenders, and the one ttccepted was that of J. and S Roberts JS3.5E6 7a 6d. It was interesting to note, seeing that American firms have been very successfully tendering in this country for some time past, even sending pipes to Glasgow, the head of ...

... GOODS TRAINS IN COLLISION. Traffic was resumed to-day on the Cheshire lines of railway at Fazalrerley June lion. Liver- pool, where three goods trains were in collision last night. The damage to the line and wreckage of wagons was very considerable, many cattle being killed. The three injured men are prc- gressing satisfactorily. ...

... One oi tbe irredeemable characters of Barry streets made her 40ih appearance before the local Bench this morning, Elizabeth Williams, who is also known by the sobnqoet Broc fiev, pieactea gu;lty to a charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and inasmuch as leniency on the part of the magistrates had had no desired efiect Mr J, Batchelor and Mr John Lowdon sent her to gaol this morning ...

... Its Killing Power. Jacob Wrench and Bona, Limited, London Bridge, were summoned yesterday (before the Lord Mayor), at the Mansion House, by the Pharmaceutiesd Society far on November 7th un- lawfully selling to Harry Moon a certain poison, to wit, a vegetable alkaloid called nicotine, in contravention of the Pharmacy Act, 1868. Mr Vaughan Williams, who appeared for the Pharmaceutical Society, ...

... LORD SALISBURY. Lord Salisbury is now regarded as well on the road to complete recovery from his attack of ia finenza, ...

... PROBABLE STRIKE AT LLANELLY GAS WORKS. The possibility of another strike at the Llanelly Gas Works, as exclusively reported in Thursday's tiouih Wales Daily Xews, has assumed a pro- bability sooner man was expected. On Thursday marniiig the stokers handed in their notices and unless their demands are conceded they will cotaa out in a. fortnight. From the tone of a repiy which has been received ...

... In America they^ have recently been erecting business buildings from fifteen to twenty-fonr stories high and the upper floors rent for almost or quite ae much as the lower oues. The possibility of this is of course due to the development of the lift, or elevator, as our cousins oyer there nameit. I personally know of one of these tall baildings, in the trventy-third story of which there is a ...

... OUR CASUALTIES. I Losses of the Guards, OFFICERS KILLED. Lord Methuen Wounded. SITUATION IN NATAL. CRONJE'S WITHDRAWAL FROM MAFEKING. Details of the victory at Modder River, the battle described in the despatch pub- lished yesterday from Lord Methuen as one of the hardest in the annals of the British Army, have not yet come to hand, War Office despatches so far to hand give the names of a ...

... Exporter writes from Cardiff to the Daily Mail concerning the condition of the steam coal trade, and states that some large speculator;} who have been heavily hit over the boom in Welsh coal are trying to bring prices down by erroneously representing that a, faH of 3s per ton had taken place. In contradiction of this the correspondent says Everything in the mar- bet'points to an upward ...

... CARDIFF SEAMAN ROBBED. Left Insensible on the Road. On Thursday, at the Shire Hall, Monmoutb, James Cummings and Frederick Baker, two rough-looking strangers, were chaiged with robbing and violently assautiug Jam^s Kearon, a. Cardiff seaman, on November 25th at Mon- mouth. Prosecutor was paid off from the Loyal Briton on the 24th. He went to Monmouth on the 25th, and was in the Robin Hood Inn ...