... —On Thursday night of last week, between twelve and one o'clock, a man named James Hedley, of Belfast, who had been third engineer of the steamship Millwall, loading at Penarth Dock, was drowned. It appears that the unfortunate man had been to Cardiff, and was returning on board at the time above stated, and by some means fell into the dock. The body was recovered at 2.20 a.m. on Friday by ...

... Monday—before Mr. Valentine Trayes (chair- man). and Major Thornley. ...

... IN AND AROUND BARRY. THE SOUTH WALKS STAR. Good readers! Give it a right good welcome. We have launched our bark on the seas. May it have flowing tide? and favouring breezes. Happy augury. The inhabitants of Barry have shown their yearning- for knowledge and informa- tion by adopting the Public Libraries Act. Let us trust they will accept this new illuminant. Tin: SOUTH WALES STAR, as well to ...

... —At the Glamorgan- shire Assizes at Cardiff, on Tuesday, Giacomd Gennaro, 25, an Italian sailor, was convicted of unlawfully wounding George Frederick Burton at Barry on the 11th of February. Mr. Carslake Thompson prosecuted, and the prisoner wis defended by Mr. Marchant Williams.—The Judge sentenced prisoner to one month's imprisonment, taking into consideration the time he livl already been ...

... —The shipments of coal and coke at Barry Dock for six days, ending Saturday'last, amounted to 66,575 tons 7 cwt.—This was shipped on board 37 steamers and 13 sailing vessels total—50. The imports during the week con- sisted 100 casks of cement, 88 tons of slate, and 1,000 tons of pitwood. The number of vessels in dock on Monday morning last was 59—30 steamers and 29 sail- ing vessels. ...

... ST MARY'S CATIIOJJICi MISSION, CADOXTOX. The feast of Saint Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish race, was kept with much solemnity. Some hundreds of beautiful oleograph likenesses of the saint were got some time before, as well as a large number of the sa'nt's life by the Very Rev. Arthur Ryall, of Thurles, so that the congregation was well prepared to celebrate the feast in a worthy maimev. The ...

... — Mr. Edward Davies, J.P., Plas Dinam, Montgomery- shire (son of the late Mr. David Davies, M.P., and a large landed proprietor), has decided to give the in- habitants of the district in which he resides the option of saying whether the public-houses which he owns shall be continued or closed. He says that they would have been closed long ago had he not been afraid that the inhabitants would ...

... Edwin Humphries, a labourer, employed at ballast crane work at Barry Dock. sustained serious injury yesterday evening. by one of his legs being crushed by a, ballast tub. He was removed to his home at Cadoxton, and medically attended to. ...

... In charging the grand jury at Bristol Afsko on Monday, Mr. Justice Stephen referred to the case in which three men were indicted for robbing Arthur George Davies of C140. He said the pri- soners were HCJJrr Pearce. TIcnry Park. and George Hodgson, and the evidence was that Davis, the man who was robbed, came to Bristol from Cardiff, and certainly employed his time in a most idiotic manner. He ...

... —Mr. D. Samuel, well- known as the president of the Dowlais Choral Society, has been appointed superintendent for this district of the London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Assurance Company. Mr. Samuel is a native of Dowlais, where he held a similar position. He has been a director of the Star Bowkett Building Scciety for eight years. He was also a member of the Dowlais Chamber of Trade and the ...

... —There were several summonses brought by the Cowbridge overseers against persons for non-payment of rates.—Henry Johnson, watchmaker, was ordered to pay U 2 7s. O.'d. by the 1st of April and costs Robert Newman, gardened, was ordered to pay C2 7s. 0VI. in weekly instalments of 8s.. also the costs David Williams will have to pay -I.: 1 6s. and 3s. 6d. costs, in weekly instalments of 2s. 6d. and ...

... There are two Welsh Bills of great im- portance now being discussed in Parlia- ment, the Tithes' Bill and the Liquor Traffic Bill. The fate of the Tithes' Bill hl the Lords points to two conclusions, one of which is probable, the other cer- tain. The first is that the Government have acted with despicable meanness to the Welsh Members, and the second is that the House of Lords, as it is at ...