... FIVE SPECIAL MEETINGS. I In order to secure a quotation of the preference shares on the London .Stock Exchange, the share- holders in Messrs W. Hancock aud Co., Limited, brewers, Card If, met. on Wednesday at the oftiess, (Jollingoou-rcad. The circumstances under which the shareholders were called togethAr were peculiar, there having been seme tedmicd elTors in description and in manner of ...

... THE ILLNESS OF JUSTICE MANISTY, A Press representative on inquiry last night learnt that there was very iittie alteration in the condition of Mr Justice Manisty. He appearia t3 be a shade stronger, but hafa not yet recovered his speech. The Press Association laarns that Mr Justice Manisty passed a quiet night, and is slightly better this morning. ...

... TO-DAY. (Before Col. WOODS Mr J. GUNN.) OFKKNCK AGAINST THE SUNDAY CLOSING ACT.- Thomas Llewellyn, landlord of the Railway Inn, Eiy, was charged with allowing intoxicating liquors to be consumed on his licensed premises ou Sunday. the 19cli inst.-SBrgeant Cole stated that at 8.15 a.m. on Sunday, -the 19th, he visited the premises accompanied by P.C. Stead, and saw two men silting down ia one ...

... LOCAL BOARDS AND UNSANI- TARY DWELLINGS. Tha Queen's Bench decided yesterday that a local board was bound before demolishing un- sanitary houses, to call upon the owner to show cause why such demolition should not take place, and to hear his statement on the matter. ...

... I. LR:n'EII:S AND TXSTIMOSBLS are receiveddaily I in ^1^mtK ?rf'.gh quality ? the ??P-?. China, an-F Tnflla T« PKany'3 Q'^eu-street Cardiff, ??ndd?2S? 2. H?h-?reet. !Swa.nsM. 108 ?ROXCHlT?.Per.oa? snSerinK from this com- piaint should loe no Ume in procarin? ? botle of Lewis s P?cco?' B?s?m. ?s ? dose ?g,, in time prevents its development into a more serious disease. Price Is liu and is 8d ...

... fcThis SpaC9 ia ie £ t ior any special eTent arriv;t; wiule this edition is being -printed ot?. ...

... An enormous crowd assembled in the neighbour- hood of Poplar Town-hall on where a meeting in connection with the late strike had been announced to be held. Contrary to expectation, the Lord Mayor and Cardinal Man- ning did not atteud, the former being prevented by official business, and the latter's advanced age rendering it inadvisable to make such a effort. —Mr Sydney Buxtoo, M.P., presided, ...

... PROFESSOR BARBIER AND THE I OATH. What is the Professor's Religion P I At th3 Cardiff county court to-day—before Judge Owen Professor Barbier was summoned by Mr Boddingfcoa for due by a judgment summons already made.—Mr Hier Thomas appeared for the applicant.-On Professor Barberi being called upon to take the oath he stated that he objected to do tio. Asked why he objected, lie stated that ho ...

... Lloyd's Casualty Telegrams. The Norcross arrived at Victoria, V.I., to-day from London with damage to hull. Xiie sloop Niuita foundered on ilie 26th September but the crew were picked up by th Norwegian j barque Ilaabet, and landed at Piymutuh on the 2nd Oetober The WIlliam S. Gretit was dockeil at Gars toil last UifdH. The Erna, previously reportedltov.-ed into the Downs last Hight, is now ...

... The Strikes of School boys. NOCTURNAL CASTIGATIONS. I i The prophetic warning in our report of yester- day,has to soma exten beea justified. In the course of our report of the beroic outburst appeared the following paragraph :— The power behind the throne has not vet be n counted with. Iuero is still the parent, who bides his time and may possibly indulge in trenchant criticism What is to ...

... A CRAVING FOR THE WORK- HOUSE. Youthful idiosyncracies are often of a perplex- ing character, but very seldom do they take the form of an ordinate craving for the happiness of a workhouse. A case of this description is reported from Stioroditcb. Zn the pauper esta- blishment of that district the other day a boy was taken in destitute. Shortly alterwards his anxious father claimed him, and ...

... About seven o'clock on Sunday evening an old lady, residing near the Northern District Uo- operative's Society's premises in Brunswick- street, Edinburgh, heard some hard knocking through the wall of her bouse, and a bird cage, which was hanging on a nail on the wall, was shaken down. Much alarmed slje informed the pol iceman on the beat that t here were burgiars in the co-operative society's ...