... from the police-court reports that the amount of offences directly connected with Christmas time was somewhat below the average. Walking through the streets on Christmas day and Boxing day, one would scarcely be prepared for this con- clusion. It was just ...

... so mauy Welsh young people in London. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LONDON. About half-past four on Wednesday morning a fire broke out in a wooden building which forms part of extensive premises recently opened at Bishopsgate, London, by the Great Eastern Railway ...

... the so-called bonus and allotment notes, as illustrated at London and Liverpool. Secondly, it had been the means >.f -raising boardmg-houses in o-enera! t a higher platform in the public favour, as illustrated bv the remarks of Mr Thomas Gray when spearim^ ...

... REVIEWS. As Christmas approaches, book, clad in pretty covers, with glowing titles and fine illustrations, make their appearance, suggesting presents for young and old. The Sunday School Union is never behind in presenting a store of literature at this ...

... THIS CHRISTMAS MAAKJET.—At a meeting of the property and markets committee, which was held on Wednesday nnder the presidency of Councillor D. E. Jones, it waa decided to hold the Christmas market at Cardiff on the Saturday night before Christmas Day. ...

... LONDON LETTER. LONDON, Monday. The late Lord Beaconsfield once observed, with a gi'eat deal of truth, that the English people do not love coalitions; and it is easy to see that they would not be drawn from their usual attitude by such a coalition as is ...

... evening, and the truth of the saying, As crowded as a London theatre on Boxing Night, was realised to the letter. The Pall Mall Gazette and the Evening News don't come out at all. If Mr Herkomer's new school of art at his studio at Bushy does not form an ...

... entertainment is now on a visit to Swansea. The diorama illustrates, in a long series of ad- mirabIy-painted scenes, the most notable places throughout the world. There are also many paintings illustrative of the incidents most worthy j of note connected with ...

... quietly pursuing his busi- .jiess in New Zealand, and it is to be 'iWi men^e^ his energy there did not lead 00 moi'o satisfactory results. yg. m ^le Speaker's writ for a new election for ijkondonderry in the room of the new ij|?~aster of the Rolls was issued ...

... prisoner Daley at New-street station, Birmingham. He went by train about 11.30 in the morning. Witness followed him close up, and he booked to Stafford. Then from Stafford he went to Crewe. Then witness saw the train arrive at Crewe from London about two o'clock ...

... William Tamblyn and James Tamblyn, Llynvi House, Maesteg Edwin Jones, London Isaac Butler, Swansea James Henry Howell, Bristol Robert Capper, Assoc. Inst. C.E., F.R.G.S., Swansea Christmas Evans, Mertbyr Tydfil James Lockwood Howard, Newport, Mon. Trevor ...

... (Cheers.) Then will come the time for the dissolution of Parlia- ment and the elections would take place on the new enfranchisement and in the new constituencies. That was a statesmanlike and proper course (tbeers) and yet Lord Salisbury taunted Mr Gladstone ...