... At many of the uoticesbavel)w, Parnarvonshire elate quarries men of tea per ccat. reduction in wages. ...

... [REUTER'S TELEGRAM. J BERLIN, Monday.—Prussia has proposed, in the Federal Council, the prolongation of the anti- socialist law for two years. At the opening of the Reichstag, next Thursday, Herr Von Boetticher, Secretary of State, will represent the Emperor. It is understood that in a speech from the throne special stress will be laid upon the importance of legislation connected with social ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF AWARDS BY THE PRINCESS OF WALES. On Monday her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales personally presented to two coxswains of the National Lifeboat Institution rewards for their gallant services in saving life. The cere- mony took place at Marlborough House, in the presence of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Colvillo of Culross, Colonel Stanley Clarke, ...

... POLITICAL SPEECI-IU'S- addressing his con- said he declined toy' oa Wednesday afternoon, tion, as, in counuon'SCl-ss Egyptian ques- members, he was in ™ar|y other Liberal trusting that the fUTtl,^tkiiude of expectancy, policy of the GoverumentCT o«velopment of the the Opposition,who seemed W? yet disappoint ia power a Sali3bury.;Rand ,«*» anxious to place tw?; PblWi ^dministra- At a crowded ...

... The annual moveable committee held its third sitting at Reading on Wednesday. Mr Bennett, ot Chester, the Grand Master, again presided. SUB-COSIMlTTEE'ri RRFOttT. The sub-committee .submitted their report re- viewing the proceedings of the directors daring the past year. Having expressed gratification at the numerical and financial progress of the order, they stated that the redistribution of ...

... POLICE.—At the Llandaff police-court on Wed- nesday—before Mr R. Rickards and Dr. Paine— Daniel Thomas, Whitchurch, was summoned for keeping open the Masons' Arms Hotel on Sunday during prohibited hours. He was convicted, and fined 10s and costs.—Evan Deane, John Hamer, Thomas Mills, Isaac Caviell, and John Francis were brought up in custody charged with being drunk and riotous at Whitchurch ...

... NEW KNIGHTS. Mr Bruce Lockhart Burnside, Q.C., Chief Justice of Ceylon, who has just received the honour of Knighthood, is the second son of the Hon. John James Burnside, late Surveyor- General of the Bahamas, and was born in 183o. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Easter Term, 1856. Mr Burnside was Solicitor- General of the Bahamas from 1864 to 1875, and Acting Attorney-General in 1865, ...

... THE CHOLERA. [REUTiat's TELEGRAMS.] MADUTO, Monday.—To-day's official bulletin reports that during the last 24 hours there have been no fretth cases of cholera or deaths among the patients already under treatment in the provinces of Alicante, Lerida, or Tarragona. ROME, Monday. -To- day's official bulletin re ports 36 cases of cholera in the city of Naples, and 12 deaths, besides 13 deaths of ...

... MR ARTHUR ARNOLD AT SALFORD. Mr Arthur Arnold, AI.P..addressing his consti- tuents at Sal ford on Monday night, remarked that the present struggle should not be regarded merely as one between Government and Opposi- L ,115 n Comions, by a majority of 130, and by hnally passing the bill without a division, had made the Reform Bill its own. The claim that the measure should be passed was not ...

... tyj'tsr to claimant has written a long 3r'-Ii hg .r Quartermaine East, iu the course of «o-v in r1;Vl,un>tes that he will not consent to his release unless absolutely !'° st>> nor will he allow himself to be y wa-y for the purpose of fieccing liard- hn-Sn °ut °f their hard-eamcd money. for t':3 of ilia children, ^3ift his c'r,s i. ...

... SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGATTSRT irunTr, 011 his patient a visit on Monday, did not go down to Coombe Warren, but at the same time forwarded strict injunctions that every carc should be exercised, and that on no account should any risk be run by outdoor exercise until he had again seen Mr Gladstone. On the strength of Mr Seymour's report Earl Granville drove to Coombe Warren in the afternoon, ...

... WEDNESDAY.—The fo]lowin.s: charters for steamers ,,iie(l:-O-,ttwarcis, coal-C-,irdiff to havt beeii --ip Colombo, 19s 6d a.n'd HOs Cardiff to P¡\lma 13s. option ,,f part caigo of goods, 20'i; Ca.r ...