The Western Mail

SINGULAR CASE AT MERTHYR PH.VRGK OF ATTBMPTKD MURDER FAILS. At Ann Koderick. Trehurris. was charged with Ule attempted raurder of tieorse Moore, a child of four years who h.s been adopted by her brother. Mr. J. Lewis defended.—It appeared from tile evidence that at about quarter to eleven o'clock on Saturday nislit the prisoner, who was drunk, placed the boy on the wall of the liiver 'l'aff in liiidse-slreet, Mort She then drew back, and was run- ning tokards the child with extended arms, when a man. nan1ed Michael Collins rushed Ion and grasped the youngster, who was after- wards taken to the union xvorkhouse,The Stipendiary thought it was not a case to be sent for trial, and the prisoner was di,chC\r¡;cd,

INDIAN FAMINE FUND. GERMANY'S CONTRIBUTIONS. Calcutta. Moud.ly.-Tl1<, "Knglishmnn." in a leading article to-day, says the half a million marks «nt from Germany is :i sutrtantial contribution towards relieving the distress of thoee 1-ho are connected with Germany only by the most slender tic- Snrt1 gf.'nf'r,)ait.:prO,"8 -if proof were needed—that the hearts of Cermans a.re in the risrht place. Assuredly, the effect of the pi ft will no: be lessened by the Boyal and kindly greetings which accom- panied it. Lord Cur7.on peak5 for all India "hen he a'ure the Kmperor that the mes-acc nd c0:1tribilt;on will awaken the Ii.t fratitnde thronghout- the country. "The coner.ms and impulsive spirit of the (fennan Kmperor," coniinnes the journal. "was touched by the terrible fimietion from which India is i11ffrin He hs cho8pn hif; favourHe method of making 111 sentiments known. Perhaps it is well that the wires should lie so constantly ,m to convey the rapidly-formerl ideas fiom the Imperial i d Never were ,?,,y put to better UFe than when they fiq?hed he gracious message of the 3rd of May assuring India of the- Kaiser's sympathy in II, mlsfortu"e and of the fat that the h-r, of the German people was touched. The announCCluent of the German contribution to the famine fund has e-.uscd great satisfaction throughout India."—Reuter. MAYOR OF CARDIFF'S FUND. Mr. John Cory, of Dtiffryn. Cardiff, has ant). scribcd £ 100 to the Mayor of Cardiff's Indian Famine Relief Fund. Writing from Switzer- land. he states that he had previously sub- scribed to the fund through other channels, and lie hopes h.s present contribution will induce others in the town and neighbourhood t do likewise. We are asked to state that the proceeds of Miss Day's annual liall at Cardiff, given in aid of the Reservists' Fund, amounted to £15. including cheques from Sir W. T. Lewis, £3 7s. 6d.; Mr. Henry Fiazor, is., and Miss Morgan, tj

A BUILDING CLUB'S CLAIM. ACTION AT MOUNTAIN ASH COUNTY-COURT. At Mountain A?h County-conrt on Monday (before Judge Gwilym Williams* the trustees of the SpriusSeid Building Club, of Peurhiw- ceiwr, sougrht to reoorcr £2J 12" 6d. of the arreura ot contributious from Joseph }:vauR. of Pearhiwceiber. Mr. W. Ken&'aole. solicitor. of Aberdare. appeared for plaintiffs and r. W. P. Nicholas, solicitor, Pontypridd, defended, -The eviflence of Mr. Pusrh. the 8ecretary, showed that the defendant joined the club on the 9th of February, 1C58. and the monthly contribution was 10s. 3d. He, however, was to pay 20s. 6d., as the club had been in exis- tence previous to his joining, and in order that he should bo in the same position othen h, was to pay ?.bl,! ,?b?,,iptins. At therate ,? lo?, 5:1. 1d,,r month thre was now due £9 163, 9d., and at 20s. 6d. there was due £ZJ 12s. 6d,-For the defence Mr. Nicholas stated that the rules provided that if a mem, her wa«s in arrears with his subscriptions he was to he fined le. per £ per month until the fines would reach £5. then he should cease to be a member. In this case the defendant had allowed his contributions to be in arrear until this amount (£5: had been exhausted by fines, and since then he had ceaaed to be a member and was not liable.—Mr. Kenshole contended that ddendant had become a debtor to the club during his membership, ,.d the f.,t teat lJe had ceased to be a member did not dis- chnrsre the debt.—His 11ollonr held, that, once in ceased to be a member, the defendant was not liable; these proceedings should have been taken bf,,e the amount ?L5) was exhausted. He, therefure, gave judgment for defendant, with cost.,

CHIEF OF THE OJIBS. A PICTURESQUE PERSONALITY. Tlie (ath is announced at a patriarchal of the Rev. Henry P'ht"hquehong Chase, who was. 1>crh:1p. th rG)t )\ktnreE't1\1e per- ■rmaUty in the clergy lis! for he was not only an Anglican priest, hut alo hereditary chief- tain at iho Cjibway 111di"IJ, Mr. Ch*se took Holy Orders when he had long passed his fif- tieth year, nnd laboured with much success among hie f"llow,oou"t.rymen, He WM a per- sonal friend of the Prince of Wales, and is ft ill remembered by many Londoners as a highly-popular speaker nt Exeter-hall.

I BURNING OF THE ZARATE. RKYARKABIiE COIXCIDENCK. Tn rwnncutioii with the burning of the steam- ship Zar??t., whilt <<u U VOYHge f' Cardiff to Argentina, it is Lt i. f.,t.ry to know that the crew, who were rescued by the Newport steamer Alassio. were landed at Plymouth on Saturday last. Captain Parfitt., the dock- mcHte" of the Alexandra D It., Newport, who wa" a pas-enger on board the homeward- bound Royal Mail steamship Jebba (which he ioiued at Las Palm".), reported that the Zarate was seen burning by the master and 011\(. of that ship on April 23. The Jebba proceeded to the ship under a full head of <ne:<m to offer her services, but ou getting within hailing distance it was found that the Alassio had rendered all the assistance which could be rendered, and had token off the crew. It is a cnriouB coincidence that Captain ParAtt, in coping with a fir on board the Zarate at Newport some years ago nearly lost his life, and al- that hi- voice was recog- nised in the darkness of the night on the high sea. When it ?ig fonnd that the reMuiug ship was the Alassio he b.il?d her ,,nd her master (Captain Pr,tn?? r"nlied t? Captain Parfitt by n?me "ving !,hat he \ne? the 'i The Zarate foundered on April 24 in 7,I? 7min, N. latitude and 19deg. 25min W. lonfritiide.

EISTEDDFOD AT EBBW VALE SPEECH BY LOR]) TREDEGAR. An eisteddfod cn a large scale was held nt tho Central-hall, Ebbw Vale, on Monday, under tho auspices of the Pride of Beaufort Lodge ('I' th" Independent Order of Good Templars, i The Rev. Uumos Jones, DD., waa the con- ductor. The adjudicators were:—Music, Mr. D. 0. Davies, Cardiff, and Mr. 0 H. Edmonds, Newport; literature and elocution, the Rev. W, Crwys Williams, Bryumawr; and pri." bag., Mrs. J. W. Davifa and Mrs. D, W. Phillips, Beaufort" Accompanbts, Mrs. T. H. Tnclt, Owm, and Mr. David Reynolds, Ebhw Vale. Tho morning meeting was meagrseli, attended, but the competitions were of a high order. The awards were its follow: — Solo for girl, nuder fifteen years of age: Annie Trump, Abertillery. Recitation, "The Pauper's Death-bed": Bdith Gwi ilim. Blaenavon. Pianoforte solo for boys or girls under fifteen: Randolph L-glit. Kbbw Vaie. Solo lor hoye nnder fifteen years of age: Oswald Maynard, Beaufort. Special prizes wero awarded to 1. i. Evnon, Tredegar, and T. l.dwin Gardner* tbhw Vale. Juvenile choir competition, "Uosamm<h, Son of David," Dri". £5, and It pitch-pipe to the conductor. Three choirs competed: Carmel (Beaufort) Choir, conductor Mr. J. Thomas; Bbaenavon Ohoir, conductor M r. W. M. Davies; and "Cor Bach Twyn-y-ddwy-Nant," Tavarnau Bach, conductor Mr. T. Prosser, The prize was uwarded to the first-named. The committee Ixid been fortunate in secur- ing I,he attendance of Lord Tredegar as presi- dent of the afternoon meeting. Councillor R. H. il.iams (ehairman) aud the members and officials of the Kbbw Vale Urban District Council met his lordship at the Great Western Railway station, ami formed a procession to the a 8teddfod hall. Couucillor R, H. Williams, J, p" in utending a cordial welcome to Lord Tredegar, said that there wus one more welcome to the Metro- polis of the Rills of Gwent than Lord Tredegar. Lord Tredegar wnis loudly cheered on rising to respond. After thanking the mem- bers of the council and the townspeople general.y for hi warw reception, he said that some oi their English frieuds were not always complimentary to the eisteddfod gatherings. Different people held different opinions, and some people did not care so much for music as the Welsh pctfp^e did. t arlylc, one ol those geutlemen who prided thcuifolvcs on making phraser—disagree-able Phrases—«aid: "If anybody has anything to say, lor God s sake, say it. and not sing it." Of course, he meant that it was much better to say anything worth saying and remember- ing uprose than in poetry. From this view lie (tho speaker) differed, for he was of opinion that a more lasting impression could be made by poetry than prose. The great Dean Stanley took but. little interest in the mu>lc or orpn recitals in his cathedral, and had been known to say that Jenny Lind would have been a most perfect woman only for her singing. His lordship, however, believed that half tho happiness of life was to be got out of poetry and song. (Applause.) Mr. Watkin thtsh") C'Brwyuog"). then read an englyn to" Ivor Huel." Councillor T. Richards (vice-chairman of tho oonnc? and secretary of (he South W;?l,. an? Monmouthshire Miners' Federation) proposed a vote of thanks to hi? ]<.rd,Up for his nt.t?n? dance, and Councillor Alf. Jones seconded. Needless to say, it was given with load applause. -iv-- I/ord Trodegar in responding said that upon looking over the programme be did not see his Iwmc among the subtwriliers, but he would be pleased to give £ 10. (Applause.) The awards in the afternoon were ae follow: Hymn, "AJexfIlIlJer," for men over 45 years of age: Mr. John Jones, Reaufort. Tenor 90I0, "The Children's Home," (for novices): Mr. Harry Morgan, Ebbw Vale. Prize bags: 1st. Miss Myra Price, Beaufort; 2nd. Mrs Price, Beaufort. Soprano solo, "Star of Bethlehem": Miae Winifred Reee, DowlaiB, Essay, "The Social Aspect of the Temperance Move net t": Mr. David Morris, Ebbw Vale. Reus 6olo (novices^: Mr. Francis James, Ehbw Vale, Male voice competition. "Wnrborse" (D. Jenkins^; prize, E20 and metronome to success- ful conductor. The following competed: — Beaufort Male Voice Party (conductor. Mr. Joeeph Price), Ebhw Vale MaJe Voice Party (conductor, Mr. T. Davics). The prise was awarctoo t. the Ehbw Vale Party. Baritone soio, "David Ringing before Saul": Isn-ae Doughton. Ehbw Vale, Contralto solo, "He was despised": Divided between Mirss M. A. Thomas, Nantyglo, and Misd Emily Williams, Pontlottyn.

NEWrOKTS NEW PARK. 1h invitation of the parks committee tho members of the Newport Corpora- tion on Monday afternoon visited the new Heechwoori Park, at Niain(let,, rcwt,,ntly Acquired on behalf of the town at a cost of X.* 11,OU'), including the palatial resi- dence. About this house there has been a good deal of canvassing what the cor- noration could or would do with it But the risit served other purposes than merely to emphasise the divergent views as to the municipal hotel and other pro- jects for which it was claimed the house was suited. At the north-west end of the 2' acres of thp Beechwood Estate there is o. very desirably situated plot known as Hie Knoll, which affords in the eye of several members of the corporation extension of the land already taken, and, provided this land can be had on reason- itble terms, it seems a wise policy to buy it now. In any ease, tho value would not depreciate, and when the new park is laid out, even if The Knoll did not form part of the recreation ground, it would be a suitable building plot. At afternoon toa, which was provided in the house, the chairman of the parks com- mittee (Alderman M. Mordey) urged the members of the council to be patient. Let them wait for a few years before asking for the elaboration of big schemes for utilising tho house, to see how things would turn out. Meanwhile.thepark might he opened, seats supplied, and a band-stand erected.—Councillor George Morgan aired a plan for turning the house into a museum and picture gallery. --The parks committee meet this (Tuesl da" morning to further consider the matter.

I THE LATE DUKE OF ARGYLL. I It hafl now been arranged that the funeral I of the late Duke of Argyll shall take plaoe on Friday.

[ AUSTRALIAN DELEGATES. I ENTERTAINED BY THE CONSTITU- TIONAL CLUIJ. The Australian delcateA were entertained at dinner by the Constitutional Club, London, on Monday niglit Lord Kuthmore presided, .d in proposing the t."?t o o.? (JucuU" cordially welcomed them, and expressed a hope for the success of their mission, which had for its object the drawing closer together of the communities of the Australian Colonies. Mr. Alirod Deakin responded. The Hon. C. Kingston proposed Her Majesty's Govern- ment." and Mr. Macartney. I.P.. replying, hoped they might be ahle to (,O\1ra;lùlLte their guests on tho successful accomplishment of their u1ission. WESTERN AUSTRALIA AN ORIGINAL I T ATE. Melbourne, Monday.Mr. Chamherlain h,, telegraphed to Mr. M'Lean. the Victorian Premier, that the Imperial Government, has decided to make provision in the Common* wealth Bill for the admissiou of Western Australian as an original 8tate,Reutc,

i W'A¡';HIGTOKI>EXA'l'E AND THC WAR, Washington. Monday.—lii the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Silza, Democrat member for New York, attempted to move the adoption of a resolution expressing gym, pathy with the Boer Republics, but the chair declined to recognise the resolution, and declared Mr. 8il«a to be out of order.—Reuter. YR. wj,,Bs,rFR D.,kvis-s oi,iNit)N. NEW YORK, Monday. Mr. Webster Davis addressed a meetin of pro-Boers at the Academy of Music last even, ing, and delivered the usual kind of harangue. He declared that the English were perpe- trating the greatest crime of the century, He denounced Mr. Rhodes as "the most damnable secnndrel nilhurg." The audience cheered for the minutes at this remark.—Central New..

THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A BARRTT SAILOR. A rain named George Francis M'Gough, a sailor on board the steamer Knslingtou, of London, has been committed for trial at Southampton on the charge of wilfully murdering John Dunon, belonging to Barry Docks, a fireman ou board the steamer, by deliberately throwing him into the hold on the night o!the 9th of MarfhIast.at.Santos Harbour. Thi?ee members of the crew, who are alleged to have witnessed the occurrence arrived at Barry on Sunday to await the tri,,t I. These men are George Barton and Walter Cunley, sailors, and Johan Lundberg, carpenter, the latter being a Swede

I LETTER FROM TROOPER HADLEY' OF PENARTH. Trooper Hadley, of Penarth. who is one of the Imperial Yeomanry, supplies proof posi- tive that he was not dead, as reported, on April 14. A day later than that date he wrote frmu Mail land Camp, near Cape Town" to his friend, Mr. F. Bennett, 4, The Parade, Cardiff, and spolte hopefully of going to the front. He also mentioned the following some- what curious fact: Charlie (Trooper Had- ley's brother, who has been out in South Africa for eight years) came up to our camp the other day. and asked me if I knew where Hadley was. and I said 'Here I am.' Bather fanny, wasn't it?"

OUTDOOR REUEF.-TMt h uot a qottUen for Poor-law GDarQ¡aDI, nor does it refer w Old-age Pensions! It simply relate* to the ept? "Outdoo Relief"-aø ?etf ???N<?!? which Mmn<M.y't "Vihdme" a9or<)< to ?U wko suffe? from Corm. New or Old Corns. Mar- "llOD and rapid nre without paint Un laventor desm e6 peMton for rtlievtBt MCe? is? hnmMity.?n ?ttttt. 1?. pott htt.-j guay. Chitahh Nt?M?aet. Ombua A

SUNDAY CLOSING CASE AT TAFF'S WELL. I At Llr.ndttlf Police-court on Monday (before I Sir John Gunn, Colonel Fisher, and Messrs, Henry Lew's and Edgar David) F. J. Harris was charged with selling whisky on oi8 premise, the Caat-le Hotel. Tuff's Well, during prohibited hours. Mr. Joseph Henry J me. appeared for defendanL-Police-sergeant Williams, of Taff's Well, eaid that shortly after midnight on Sunday, the 22nd ult., he was on dnty near the above hotel, when he saw the landlord open the door and look up and down the road. Witness went to him and asked him if he had anyone in the house. defendant said "No." Upon this witness went into the house and found a butcher of the name of Slade in the passage behind the door with a lemonade bottle containing whisky In his hand. The landlord said that the whisky had not been sold to Slade, but had been given to him for his wife. Subsequently he asked witness not to report him.—Mr. J. H. Jones submitted witness to a searching cross, examination, but failed to shake bis evidence. -For the defence it wae urged that Slade had come to the house with meat about eleven o'clock, that defendant and Slade had stayed in the house chatting, and at parting the landlord had given Slade a small quantity of whisky for his wife.—Several witnesses were called, and they were unanimous that Slade had come in about eleven o'clock and had left some ten minutes before midnight-Tbe Landlord stated that he had no intention of taking payment for the whisky he had given 8Ia<le,1'he Bench decided that the evidenoe was not entirely conclmive, and so dismit?d the ca*e, with a caution to Harris to be more cai-efu in future.

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WELSH CLERGYMAN AND HIS MOTHER. A LKfTER TO THE ABERYSTWITH I GUARDIANS. At a meeting 01 the Aberystwith Guardians on Mondav, Mr. W. A. Millar presiding, a lengthy communication was read by the clerk (Mr. Hugh Hughes) from the clergyman whose mother had become chargeable to the common fnnd of the Union. The rev. gentleman stated that, in conjunction with his brothers. he had long maintained his mother, and he was quite at a loss to know why she had appealed to the gaardians. The Clerk said the clergyman had called upon him per- sonally, and he was satisfied that he had done everything that could reasonably be expected. The members concurred in this Tiew.

ELECTRIC CARS FOR LLAXELLY. t OVERCOMING A DIFFICULTY WITH THE TRAMWAY COMPANY. The Llanelly Borough Council decided on Monday upon an important step in connetion vith the scheme for providing electnc can in the town, They have entered into an Agreement with the British Insulated Company by which the corporation carries out a scheme at a ccst of ab4Dnt E3D.M. It was reported in Monday, however, that the company had failed to como to terms with the owner. of the existing tramway at Llanelly. The conned thereupon decided to acquiri the property (a. they have power po ,10) for subsequent trans, ference to the :ompa ly. and it was nnani, rronsly resolvei that the necessary application be made to the Board of Trade.

I CHINESE AMBASSADOR AT WOL- VEEIIXMPTOII. The Chinese Ambassador, Sir Chihchen Lofen- glnh, visited Wolverhampton on Monday. His Exoellency. who was accompanied by two sons and three attaches. arriTtd at two o'clock at the High Level Station, where he was received by the mayor and town-clerk, in official robes, And Sir George Chabh, and escorted to the Town-hall. Here members of the corporation were waiting to receive him, and his excel- lency was presented with a congratulatory address. The afternoon was spent in iits to some of the principal works.

WOMEN PREMATURELY AGED By headaches, indigestion. liver troubles, kidney pain6 and weaknesses, ('.()Dst1pa.tll,n. stomach uervoirenees, loss or appetite and sleep, speedily red to health, strength, and beauty by VEGELOID8, the new and wonderful little digestive aperients and liver inimulantf. "You can't. feel old while taking VEGELOIDS." One a dmt-, 100 doom in pocket vial Is. I*d.. of :eemt$t"r::=tn (j'MrrJt;Rÿr, 27, CUUUTbov&,I?MUM LandoiL MMl-?

TIN-PLATE TRADE CRISIS. MONTH'S NOTICE TO STOP WORK. FIRM STAND BY THE MEX, Both millmen and annealers in the tin plate trade have now tendered notices cease contracts in 28 days, in pursue ot their resolute demand for incre^eT of wages. Mattprs, therefore. arc in a state of distinct and advanced crisis through. out the trade and it only now remallr, to be seen what the conciliation board will be able to etleet at their meeting to-day (Tuesday), and how the employers will regard the emphatic stand the men have taken. It is thought that, on the whole, they are likely to give way, as it cannot be said that thev have much more cohesion than in the past, and there are always ready those who are willing to depart from the general course of action To prevent this, aud also the disturbance of the industry which must result, and especially as it is believed that circum. stances will alter e-ses at no remote date" it is believed a conclusion satisfactory the men will be come to either to-{ja; or at some subsequent meeting before the expiration of the notices. The m,l]mf,n, notices handed in by fr, Hodge are agreed to cover the whole of the mill- men in the trade, as the representatives of the other Unions in which millmen are members have tacitly agreed to this course. The anneaters' notices were handed in on Monday bv Mr. Ben Tillctt for the Dockers' Union, to which thev aU belong. They are under 009 in nunl- her but thev can stop the whole trade Our representative has gleaned the following from Mr. Harrv Orbell as to the present position of affairs. In reply to a question as to whether he really thought the masters would aliow the men to strike. Mr. Orbell replied that he "a, of the opinion tha' they would not. He said the Union &mcia)s had thorouirnlv gone into the nue?tiou. and wei?t?.j every tittle of evidence from the makers' side, and had also 60ne into the rigu>vs and worked out the cost of production, dee., and tliey were conscientiously of the opinion that the increase a'ikp for eoulrl be granted by the employers. Hebehcvea that rather than let the men strike work the Employers' Association would soiit up, and each master would stand "on hii own and offer the men in his own employ the best terms he could. ===========-—

MOUNT VESUVIUS. Rome Monday.—For the past three dart Mount Vesuvius has been in eruption.—Reuter.

CARDIFF RKPKESFiNTATIOX. MAXAOK5IEXT COMMITTKK TO ilEE'i' Jilt LA^REXClv A meeting of the management, committee of the Cardiff Conservative Association was held et, Salisbury-chambers on Monday evening. There was a larae attendance, presided over by Mr. \V. Courtis, the vice-chairman of the party. The eoc-.mittee agreed to meet Ir. Joseph L,.we.nfe at an early d'tlc.

THE RUSSELL MARRIAGE. ARRIVAL OF THE EARL IN ENGLAND. The Karl of Rusaeil and the lady whom he rectmt/.y married arrived off Queenstown on' Aionday from New York, and proceeded to Liverpool.

LOCAL PARLIAMENTARY BILLS. ST. DAVIDS RAILWAY (ADDITION VL POWERS). Ibis Bill, which has already passed through the House of Commons, came ell Monday before the Kianiiners of the House of Lords for proof of compliance with the further standing Orders. There was no opposition at hi'3 Stage, and. the necessary formal proofs iiavins heen gielJ. the Kxamiuers decided that ,he furi?er Orders had been duly <o'mp)i<'d with T, Bill ,i?l ..rclinglyl?('?i  e p o r te(I in the usual course for second reading. OTHER BILLS. In the House of Commons on Monday the Tishgnard Water and Gas Bill. the Mountain Ash Water Bill, aud the Rhymnty Iron Com- jjLiny's Bill were each read a second tine JflLIOKD DOCKS BILL. This Bill came 011 Monday before Karl Morlev,' Chairman 01' Uomluittces of the House of Lord", as an unopposed measure. Formal proofs were given of the cunsent of the debenture-holders toO th,, proposals, and the Bill was allowed to pass the Committee st3.ge, and was reported for third reading.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN IX: CADOIt. yew York Monday.—The "Herald" Gnaya- Civil co: respondent telegraphs that an unsuc- cessful attempt was made on Saturday to assassinate General Alfaro, President of Ecaa. dor. The would-be aesassln was captured. The President was nnhnrt.—Renter.

OTTAWA RELIEF FUND. The London Mansion Houm Ottawa Font .n MondAy night amount?d i? £3,OOO, and Jnolnded 100 guineas cabled by Bi, li?? ft%d from Mameap-lim.

new Bishop of LiverpoM at WindeoT C»«tl« on J(onAay affcemopn, and dJd I Jtom&ti toUaQimi iatment,

THE PARIS EXHIBITION. Paris, Mondav.—In spite of the fact that the Exhibition has been cpened for more than three weeks, it is still iu a very backward state. To put an end to this unsatisfactory state of affairs, the Minister of Commerce yesterday h"1 a conference with lil. Pieard r<nd all the chief departmental heads of the Exhibition. The conference lasted for three hours, and it ic; understood to hare resulted in a decision to issue a decree stating that all buildings inuft be ready and complete by May 12, uuder penalty of excla- sion.—Daljsiel.

THE KAISER Yieuna. Monday.—The Kaiser, it is announced I to-day, will pay a return visit to tho Emperor Prand. Joseph about the end of Jane or the heginning of July .—Central News.

"FRY'S PURE CONCENTRATED COCOA is without an equal in respeot of It- purity and for all-rguud exmllent.. It is mv IDE&L OF PERFECTION. There i. NO BETTEB FOOD Dt. 4IMbew WOMU, F.B.3.E., &c., "66519

CONGREGATIONAL UNION. The annual assembly of the Congregational U-i-?? commenced in London on M-ndy. TI,?- 1,?? ]!.t, ha-d to ? taken ?or" ?he e?tj?) of chairman of the Union, as in the first two no ? diii,? rccoh-ed n s.. 2ient number of votes for election under the ?-.1-1. Dr. Parker was elected, aniiil enthusiasm. In tho first two ballots he stood 8c-cond.

NEWPORT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS At a meeting of the governors of the New- port Intermediate Schools, held on Monday, it was sported that the Charity Commissioners had approved an amendment of the principal scheme providing for the appointment of addi- tional women governors, who should be governors for all purposes. No scholar would b" admitted to the school under the age of ten, and 110 boy would be allowed to remain in the school over the age of Seventeen, and no girl OTer the age of eighteen, except with the permission of the govern inar body, whocould extend the age to eighteen and nineteen years respectively.

PEXARTU DISTRICT COUNCIL. At tho usual monthly meeting of the P;;arttloD,s;1 CouncU he'd on Monday h; R. Guy presiding, it was resolved to defer the dosing of the isolation hospital for one month and not to permit the admission of patients suffering from any other infectious disease. On the motion of Mr. Morris, a com-1 mittee was appointed to investigate case* of non-compliance with notices to aba.te nuisances before taking legal proceedings.- A resolution, proposed by Mr. Hancock, to charge u fee ot 21s. for examining house drains where no nuisiince is supposed to enst was carried, the fee to be 10s. 6d. for houses rated at £ 30 or under. Mr, Hancock thought this would cover the manv frivolous cases their inspectors had to deal with. brought about by the agitation of the Cardiff Corporation in its promotion of the incorpora- tion scheme.

PROMOTION FOR THE PONTYPRIDD POSTMASTER. Mr. T. H. Spraggou, postmaster of Ponty- pridd, received information from the Post- master-General on Monday of his appoint- ment to the poatmastership of Devonport. Mr, Spraggon came to Pontypridd from New- (ttstlc-ou-Iyne three years ago.

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I "HE 3RD WELSH. Letters that reached the relatives and friends of uicn serving with the 3rd Welsh (Militia) Battalion by the lust mail show that six companies are still ai Pricska, and that the two rcmtiiiiing compaiii? are stationed at D? A?,, No, ?j,?g f an eventful character ma to :e"]'neal' inet[]i o¡,at:: ¡ of the 3rd Battalion, who are employed in I guarding stores and keeping watch and ward over the lines of communication. CARDIFF MAN LKAVES FOR SOUTH AFRICA. On Monday afternoon a large number of fr?nda of Sergeant-ma j or Dyer, of Cardiff, ::l :r::t,je' RiflW;r\: i form to bid him farewell npon his departure with the 2.55 train, Sergeant-major Dyer, as previously reported, is attached to the Royal Engineers, and has been given an important appointment on the waterworks outside Bloemfontein. He left Cardiff with the he,t wishes of a host of friends, who cheered lustily as the train was leaving the station.

CHECKMATING THE BOERS. I PROPOSED COMMANDEERING. CAPE TOWN, Monday. Owing to the loRsea in horses and the con, sequent delays in the advance, the authorities are considering the advisability of com. mandeering hones in the rebel districts and Free State territory for Held use, granting receipts to their owners. This would effectually check any attempt at gncrilla fighting in the south of the Free State and the disaffected regions. The Capo Government has wired money for the benefit 01 the Colonial prisoners, who are chiefly Cape police, in Pretoria goal. An officer who went through the siege of Weponer states that the Boers fired 410 shells in one day. Thty used explosive bullets, and fired guns from behind an amhulaiite. Eight thousand Bocr8 werj .,nga1;(cd. The enemy made use of captured "British guns.—Press Association War Special.

UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT I FOR CARDIFF. PROFESSOR CHAPMAN HOPEFUL. I In the course of an interview with one of our representatives Professor Chap- man (of the Cardiff University College) said that after the meeting held a few days ago ho believed that a "university settlement" would be established at Car. diff in due time. "What good will it do when you have got it f" "Well, that is a difficult question but the main object of these settlements is to popularise euli urp, Anot her thing is that it will bring classes that are sepa- rated into closer touch with each other: they would come in time to realise each other's idellk One of the aims is to pro- vide rational recreation amongst the people in districts where there is but little. At the same time, the institution would advanco what may be called men- tal lifo and enlarge its scope, and would be n social centre for the improvement of all classes. Working men. for instance, would be able to go to the rooms and study, and find there a sort of working man's college." "But isn't all that sort of thing covered now by the technical education movement, especially when we find, as in Cardiff, that the committee maintains classes for instruction in subjects that are not teohnical strictly speaking?" "That is so partially, but there is still a great deal to be done in the way of popularising education and culture. It is not sufficient to provide education you must take it to people's doors." "Will the promoters want any money ?" "Yes; it would take about £:300 a year to start classes. Part of that would come from the University Settlements Association, and when the settlement had done enough to justify the scheme there might be an appeal to the town." ''Would membership be by election?" "The idea is to have an association of past students, but I should think they would, probably, hold a meeting in tho town; there would be subscribers, and the subscribers would elect representa- tives to the council." "So that it would be semi-academical and semi-popular?" "That, would be so, I should think. The scheme has been tried in other places before I at Toynbee Hall (in London), in Manchester, Liverpool, and other places —and has been very successful. Through this movement boys' clubs, workmen's clubs, organisations for labour amongst cripples, and so on have been established, and other branches of social work have been carried on. The social motive is pro- minent in the work of the settlements, which aim at bringing out the good that is latent in humanity."

I KING OtsCAR AT SHEFFIELD. King Oscar, accompanied by the Swedish Minister and the members of the Swedish Legation, on Monday paid a priva,te visit to I Sheffield and inspected the armour plate works of Messrs. Cammel.

REMOVING THE REPROACH. At the Royal Academy banqnet Lord Salisbury said he regrretfed that the Cabinet con;rJ not show one singJe artist, not even a sculptor. It is riinit.uircd in well-informed circles that this failing will shortly be remedied.

THE TRAGIC OCCURRENCE AT ST. MELLONIS. BLACKSMITH TKOrBLED ABOUT HLS SOLDIER o, I MI", "Huberts-Jones, coroner for South Mon.1 mouth-hire, hold an inquest at St. Mellon'si roliee-station on Monday L,? to the death of Mr. Rces Williams, blacksmith. 09 years of age, of The Forge House, St. Mellon' who died on Saturday nndur peculiCir circumstances-—Mr. William Roes Williams, wh'johvright, Ponty- pridd, a sun of deceased, said lie last saw his father alive at Katt-er. Binco one of the Hons went to South Africa with the Gloucester Yeo- manry, about three IUlJulb" aso, deceased seemed depressed.Mr. Alfred Williams, alJoher son f deceased, said he saw hit, father at half-past two o'clock on Saturday. He did not see him meet with all accident that day. but frequently lie had seen him depressed since the -011 who bad prone to South Africa went away. lIi3 father went to bed 00"11 alter two o'clock, saying he was not well, because he had met with all accident while .11Oeiu!: a hor^e earlier in the day. Witness said it was his mother who told him there hud been an accident.—Mr. W. Reca Williams, re-called, corroborated what his mother halt "dd as to the accident to derated, and that I he injury was not to the head, hut to the knees. Deceased bud a>.ked for Dr. Wallace to be >cnf for hefore lying down on the bed. —Mr. Alfred William*, re-called, spoke as t-o his coiner to the bedroom and finding his tather suspended hy tho neck t-o a bed.p""1. Ho did nol know where the rope wa* obtained. When he s:»w what bad happened he ran and told hi* mother, libli cut t'ie rope. lIe never heard his father say he would do away with himself, and could not say why he committed the act.Mr. (ieo. Duflfteld, of a black- smith who had worked for ;l1'<'oa'ed for a few we-cks past. dd deceased told him he felt un* ettJcil and nervous for some tinw, and was not able to sle*?p. Witness could not say whether there were any domestic or financial trouble, hut on Saturday last deceased com- plained of feeling ftad owing to an accident, saying also that ho would go to bed. Then h" a>kerl for a piecc or rope, but witness hadn't any. Wit[1cs offered him", bit of twin, but that, deceased said, was not strong enough. He did not know where deceased procured the rope, lk believed that his eon's departure for South Africa had unsettled his mind- I'olce-constable Walter said that when he wm called to Illo hoa«c deceased had expired.—Poliee-c-ojibtable John Morris said the rop9 was a new one. Witness had inquired at the local whopa and of neighbours as to whether de"oa<ed had pttrch?eod ? rnm. but "ould not t. ?inf( tl,i,,t. he had.—A juryman "Hid the rope produced was similar to the kind that would bo u«od by a blacksmth for pack- ing prlie jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide whilst tempo- rarily insane.

MERTHYR COLLIERY RATING APPEALS. At Merthyr Police-court on Monday Mr. H. P. Lintou appeared before the stipendiary, Mr. T. Marchant Williams, and explained that Nixon's Navigation Company and Hill's Ply. mouth Company, the owners of large collieries in the parish of Merthyr, had found it neces- sary to appeal at the next quarter sessions against the geueral district rate made by the urban diitrict council. The law required that they should come before the court and ask the magietrates to fix the amount of security for the prosecution of the appeal, and, on behalf of Nixon's Navigation Company, he submitted as sureties the names of Mr. H. E. Gray, a director of the company and the general manager of the collieries, Mr. John l ane Herbert (secretary), and Mr Alfred James (clerk), and on behalf of Hill's Plymouth Com- pany the names of Mr. N. F. Hankcy (a direetor of the company, Mr. George Woolley (secretary), and Mr. Thomas Brown (cashier). —The stipendiary lixed the aeeurity at £100, and the sureties were, of course, approved of.-At a later stage, npon the application of Mr. F. P. Charles, his worship fixed the same security for the prosecution of a similar appeal by the Dowlais Iron Company, and Messrs. Crawshay Brother (Limited), Cy, farthfa. The sureties accepted for the former company were Mr. H. W. Martin, Mr. A. W. Houlson, and Mr. D. Robert Jones.—Mr. Charles explained that he was not at that momeut in a position to put the sureties for Messrs. Crawshay Brothers (Limited), before the court, but he would produce them at another time. During the afternoon the recognisances were taken of Mr. William Evan., the general manager of the Cyfarthfa Works, Ifr. John Rogers, and Mr. John Harpur.

FIGHT IN A COAL PIT. At Pentre Police-court on Monday James Cosgins, a labourer, Clydarh Vale, was charged with wounding Joseph M'Carty, 19. Marion-street, Clydach Vale, on May 3,-The evidence showed that both defendants worked at the No. 2 pit. Clydach Vale, and quarrelled as to who should discharge certain trams.— M'Carty admitted having pushed the defen- dant. He was then Btruck, and fell uncon- scious to the ground. He was told that Cog- gins struck him with a lamp.—John Evans, fireman, who was on the spot, gave evidence of the affray, but his evidence as to whether Coggins had struck M'Carty with the lamp was somewhat indefinite.—The case was re- manded for a week, I

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[ LOCAL AMUSEMENTS. j THEATKB KOYAJj, CARDIFF. "The New East Lyime" j8 being played once more at the Theatre Royal. Cardiff, by Mr. W. W. Kelly's company. Mr, K. Gurney, in ;it,ranrl ing the draIna. has worked upon Mrs. Henry Wood's famous novel, but- has laid in! a b.e,¡.y store of comedy, allotted to a,n Irish; servaU1. The company j8 strong .11 round., and on Monday evening experienced a very y ""),i" m 4" Bessie Bignold gave" very ff-ti,? exhibition in the d." I eh? ri,,tr of "Lady Isabel" itntl "Madame Vane," and acted very impressively throughout. Mr. ,Ja meA O'Brien was again in attcudam", a8 "Murty O'Flynne," the Irish servant, and his round-hand Iri,hin,. kept the a,udn{'e in roars of laughter whenever he was on. Miss Harriet Ellis ("Cornelia Carlyle"), Miss Mary Stafford ("Joyce Halijohn' Miss Lucy Kvelyn ("Barbara II are"f, Messrs. (i. Prrce ("Archibald Carlyle"), Levey ("Francis Levi- son"), and E. Valentine <"Richard Hare") all proved very i ble exponents of the characters allotted to them. HRAXD THEATKK, CARDIFF. "The Little Vagrant" is put on at the Grand I Theatre, Cardiff, this week by a capital com- jpany. Judging from the proceedings on (Monday evening, they will be having a ron,ing time of it at the We"tate-street house. The scenes are full of life amongst London thieves, and are intended to show how much of good there is amongst eye., the worst people. Miss Amy Kills played up splendidly as "Poll Harris," and won round after round of applause, especially after the exciting struggle with her husband in the endeavour to oa7e the little vagrant. Miss Kitty Fenton led the comedy a* the servant, "Hannah Smithers," and contributed several songs whilst Miss May MOll played effectively as "Arthur Arden" (the little vagrant1. Mr. H. Ryeland Leigh worked hard a. Jiin Hhrris," and m:wc the b".t of an exacting impersona- tion. and Mr. Stanley Radcliffe came out well as the real villain of the plot. As "Slido away Rates," Mr. Harry Roxbury was capital, and gave a very neat lot of comedy. with some good songs. The drama has plenty of bustle and movement jn it, and there is no limit to the thrilling character of some of the incidents. ?. I IBE EMPIRES. CARDIFF. Mcdiocrity i8 an abfent element ill the per, formances given by the excellent company 01 artiste* at the Cardiff Empire this week, and there are two or three turns that are so trood that it is difficult to decide which is the best. The Keliiuo Troupe of RiB1cyites, perhaps, deserve to be mentioned first. for their porRramme is made up of original feats. Everything they do is a departure from the orthodox display of stage athletes, and they won so much favour with the audience that it was only with the greatest reluctance that they were allowed to make their final bow. From the biggest and strongest man of the lot down to the smallest boy the Kelljnos are of magnificent phYi-ique, and are trained to tnrn their great strength to the best advan- tage. Quito fresh and highly interesting are the Irish jigs and Scottish reels danced to periedion by the Northern Troupe, and a "ketch of exceptional merit is "The Evening Party," performed so effectively by Frank, Willie, and Albert Boiseet and company. Laurence Barclay is a real humorist, who knows how to sing a comic song, his eccen- tricities causing people to be fairly oonyulsed with laughter. Another new turn is that of the American roller-skaters, the Sisters Taylor, who move about gracefully and without the least sign of physical effort. Clarke and Clement and Rosie Syl?ter make up a com- pany that would be hard to beat. NEWPORT. A splendid and entirely new series of bio- tableaux forms the chief feature of the New- port Empire's programme this week. Excel- lent films have been secured of the Scots Guards entry into Bloemfontein, an armoured train, a wash-day in the camp of General Clements, the landing of Sir George White, and several of his subsequent trinmphal recep- tions. Then there are the Agios Trio, on the rolling globe ?d with se(?-?saw c?ci??lities, h;l;st:iu;iIti ::rdncai fessor Fred Harcourt, a marvellous magician, is an entire puzzle. A very promising youug artiste is Miss Ruby Verdi, whose sweet voicc and graceful dancing are of a, high quality. Templar Saxe. a light opera baritone, is splen- did, and so are the remaining turns, Volti and Ray, gymnasts; Miss Lily Warren, ballad'st* the Frasettis, and the Sisters Asher, duettists. THE LYCEUM, NEWPORT, "The Private Secretary," Mr. Charles H.! ,i., ?y'. *genial prodadi, whn pr.d.-d! for the fi,* time on Monday in the Lyceum, j though n?Lfor "ic 6rst time in Newport, went iIt ,I??t It is an art"t: composit n. who.-s brightn?.s sMms to defy t,?rni,?h. Luckily, perhaps, for the optimistic author it. was tlrt staged before the "neurQtic" age, a,rod its ipp??I t..11-r d r?-d jy. i.?t,??d of to just one trait of morbidness, gives it promise of another seventeen years' prosperous run. This visit of Mr. W. J. Lancaster's Com- pany is a farewell one—always interesting. A comedietta. "My Lady Help," which precedes, has a sprightly charm and unfettered frdm. D'ARCS WAXWORKS. CARDIFF. D'Arc's Wcaxworks still oontinne to attract the generall public, and chief among the figures now on view are those of the heroes of the South African War. Lady Viva Benard still attends as palmist, and there are several side- shows worthy of a visit.

ATHLETIC SPORTS AT TREDEGAR. The second annual sports (under A.A.A. and NCI', rules.) were hold on the Recreation Ground, Tredegar, on Monday, in flue weather. Following are the results of the chief events — 120 yards boys' race: 1st. Carpenter, Tre- degar; 2nd, Whitehorn, Tredegar; 3rd. Fox. Tredegar. 120 yarfls handicap (football): 1st. Humphreys, Tredegar; 2nd, Jenkins, Aber- gavenny; 3rd, Aubert, Tredegar. Half-mile bicycle handicap (local): lot, J. H. Hughes; 2nd. J. Davies; 3rd. J. E. Davies. 120 yards handi- cap (local): 1st, Powell; 2nd, Williams; 3rd, Morgan. 120 yards open handicap: 1st, G, Priest, Cardiff; 2nd. Pugsley, Newport; 3rd, Phillips, Abergavenny. 100 yard- sack race: 1st, C. Franks, Cardiff; 2nd. B. Cheetham. Cardiff. 44Q yards open handicap: 1st, Ful. ton. Newport; 2nd, Powis, Newport: 3rd, Phillips. Al>ergavenny. One mile bicycle open handicap: 1st, Haycock, Pontnewynyild; 2nd, Synionds, Abersavenny; 3rd, Cooke. Aber- gavenny. Three miles cross-country handi- cap: 1st, R. C. Brookes. Newport; 2nd. T. L. Johns, Newport; 3rd, Palmer. Newport. One mile open walking handicap: 1st, Mortimer, Caerleon; 2nd, Frankh:nn, Abersyohan; 3rd. Trump. Abersychan. 120 var(Ls open hurdle handicap: lI, Williams. Rogerstone; 2nd, Pugsley, Newport; 3rd, Baskerville. Aberga- venny. One mile open handicap: 1st. MOIIPo. Newport; 2nd, Whatmore, Sebaetopol; 3rd, Rets, Newport.

LOCAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS. The annual singing festival in connection with the choirs of the various Calvinistic Mcthorli-t Churches in the Merthyr district was held on Monday at Pontmorlais, Mer- thyr. r, SMOKERS finding a Shag Tobacco too atrong should smoke Archer's Golden Returns (regis- wred), Medium flavour, fuilv matured. Four years in bond before kins cut. L11307 At a meeting of the Monmouth Town Council on Monday an estimate for a general district rate of 4s. 2d. in the £ was passed. A borough rate of 9d. in the £ was also made; these rates last year were 3s. and Sd. respectively. F. D. Owen and Co.. Surgeon-Dentists. 42, Queen-street, Cardiff, and Uxford-etreet Swan- sea. All Case. guaranteed. a4707 At -ii^eting of the Llanwonno School Board held at Monntain Ash on Monday three tenders were submitted for the erection of a school at Pengenlan, Miekiu, and that of Messrs C. Jenkins and Sous, Forth, at E2,475, the lowest. wa" accepted. b SIEDLE BROS.. Swansea and Newport, for oest, Photosrraphs. A man named Jeremiah Driscoll, aged 44 years, employed at the Cwmfelin Tin-plate Works, Swansea, whilst attempting to jump on to travelling crar.e. slipped and j fell under the wheels. He was severely injured about the legs, and was ai once conveyed to the hopital, where he subsequently died. CUUs'lN*" OCR ?LMJ??OA? COUSIN" 6M0KE ARCHER'S "M.F.H." MIXTURE 41611 A meeting of the creditors of Pavid Howells, boot and shoe repairer, 57, Duffryn-street! Ferndalc. was held on Monday at Merthyr Tho debtor's labilities were returned at £65 6s. 2d., and his assets at £14, there being thus a deficiency of X51 6s. 2d. Depression in trade and pressure by creditors were the oausel to which the failure was ascribed. ARCHliE'8 INFANT PLANT CIUAKIVITES Pronounced by H.R.H. the PRINCE OF WALEb to be the best he ever Smoked. See "United Service Gasrtte IdflHl A mUM ical evening (ladies' init?ti.n) WM held at the L(!* wr Park-hall, Cardiff, on Saturday, under the au"pi- of the Ctrdie and Di,triet branci of the u ,K,C,T,A" Mr. A. J. Hybart preeiding. The einging and ?pl-Ti.9 were of a ?,y high order, IDdd, and the gentlemen of the Rhoudda Glee Society kindly sent down by Mr. Tom Stephens, the conductor, acquitted them- selves moet creditably. Mr. C. G. Booker, of Penarth. favoured the audience ?ith three 80ng", of W?h Ma?- the ]a't, wae by specie d..ir., and Mi. E.?b?-. Mander '.Silver l :(¡8tadA, played a "Caprice" by Raffo in br;l li.nt tyle, d also a"ted a? accompanist during the evening. It is plead- i"g to note that the hall was ?omfortably inii,d h.?- being present about 203 lad,e. and gentlemen.

LOCAL LAW CASES. BUSSE V. CORFIFL D. ROX, AND CO., OF I CARDIFF, In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice on Monday (before Mr, Justice Darling and a common jury) the action of Bosee v Corfield. Son, and Co.. of Cardiff, came on for hearing.—Mr. Herbert Reed. Q.C.. and Mr. Moyses were for the plain- tiff; Mr. B. FranctS-Wnti?ms. Q.C., and Mr. S. T. Ev?no. M. P mpresent4e?l the defendants. —Plaintiff. Mr. William Busse, of WestHamp- stead, London, sought to recover £ 352 16b. 7d. for Ilortug?se sla te supplied in October, 1899, to the defendants, who carry on business in WindBor-road, Oardiff. Defendants deuied the bargain and ¡;a,1<? of the g;>odR, Alterna- tively they pleaded that on the 23rd or 24th of June plaintiff agreed to sell to defendants 150 tons of roofing elates at £9 15s. a ton and five tons of roofing slates at £8 10s. a ton, to be delivered at the Cardiff railway station- The contract was for sale by sample. The elates arrived at Bate Dock. on October 31. 1899, but they did not correspond with the samples, and were not roofing slates, and the defendants refused to accept delivery.—After hearing evidence ttoe jury found for the defendants. EBBW VALE STEEL AND IRON COMPANY (LIMITED) V. THOMAS AND CO. (LIMITED). In the Queen's Bench Division on Monday (before Mr. Justice Mathew) the hearing was continued of the action brought by the Ebb" Vale Steel and Iron Company (Limited) against Thomas and Co. (Limited), iron manu- facturen, of Lydney. Gloucestershire, to recover £6,000 for steel bars supplied to de fen da ii ta. The latter counter-claimed between £5,QW and £6,000 damages for alleged delays in delivery. -Mr. Bray, Q.C.. and Mr. Eldon Bankes were for the plaintiffs; and Mr. J. Walton. Q.C., and Mr. Hamilton represented the defendants. —The action had reference to dealings between the parties in 1899-The hearing had not concluded when the court rose.

AN ASYLUM FOR CARDIFF. INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPETING ARCHITECTS. On Monday the Cardiff Asvluois Com. mittee, presided ovjr bv Mr. F J Veall. considered and adopted the condi- tions and instructions under which archi. teets will be asked to send in designs for a new asylum at Whitchurch. The building must be designed to accommo- date 1.2o0 patients, the plans to be <0 arranged that provision can be made frr 800 at first. leaving 450 to he provided for at a later period. The competition will he carried out :n two stages. The preliminary ftage will he open to all archit4?(?t? w ho?,, <Jrawiiic» may be in pencil, lightly washed tn?'?? colour, an d out of t?.-? ix ?i:l selected for the fin?l stage. AdditirmRI plans, elevations, and sections will them be required. A premium of £ 10(1 will be paid to the competitors in the second stage, except the successful one, xb,), award shall merge into the commit,m to be paid him. calculated at 5 per c n;. upon the cost of the buildings. Designs in the preliminary stage must be deli- vered to the borough engineer not .atcr than twelve noon on the 2F4tb inst. committee hope to obtain the services Mr. G. T. Hine, architect to the .rnaia y Commissioners, to gu'Je them in t.'J(? competition. THE HOUSING OF IMBECILES. A report presented by 1r, F..T. Beavan <o the Cardiff Guardians on the proceedings of a conference held in Lon- don with reference to the housing of 1111- beciles was read. Mr. Beavan explained that the county and c-ountv borough councils had power to provide homes for this class of the insane, but the guardians had not. Alderman Carey, Mr. Edward Thomas, and others spoke of the desira- bility of separating feeble-minded person* from those who were absolutely insane, and 51r. Beavan promised to report cer- tain inquiries which the Glamorgan County Council are now making on the subject.

SETTING FIRE TO A BULL. AN "OLD-ESTABLISHED'' PRACTICE At Gloucester 00 Saturday Frederick Hart Westbury-on-Severn. and Edward Perk., Cliaaebill, farmers, were summoned for crneltr to & bull on April 24 -From the evidence it appe-ared that the defendant* were taking a but), about three years old. from Ohurcham to Westbury. The animal had never before been on the road, and they experienced mnrb d.mcutty in getting it along. At one pla?he the bull lay down in the road and refused to get up. whereupon defendants resorted to the practice <">f putting some straw under the animal and setting fire to it -Mr, Treason who defended, said the practice was an 0)0. established one—Pines ol £1 eaeb, including costs, were imposed.

ANGLO-RUSSIAN FLOUR MILLS (LIMITED). The Anglo-Russian Flour Mm. ¡Timit.¡: has formed to acquire as a going concern the flour mills and the goodwill of the "css carried on by Mr. Wilhelm Fast, at hkatennoslav, in South Russia. The mil!. are among the most important and extensive in Soutb Rug-, a. and are situat-ed in the <entrs of the greatest corn-growing distr.ot of th. tcouijz,ry. The supply of frain is prac- tically uiilimit-Ld. zn(I the Buseian Govern- ment has granted the necessary aothontv for the company to trade in Ra9sia.. The whole of the ordinal shares have ?en t?ken by the vendon- in p'rt. I ,nenke.f e tenre:orepri: i'J 17.000 6 per cent, cumulative preference hart-s of £S ?a,h r? no* IHued to the pahhr. Th* directors and their friends have taken 4.' -i of the preference shares, which are over and above the 17.0jD i^ued. The subscription ¡"t w;q open on Thursday next, and close on the following day for town and country.

TRAP ACCIDENT AT CARDIFF. A serious trap accident happened in Cardiff on Mondav morning near the Angel Botpl, Mr. W. J. Berry, coachman at Ely Paper Mill*, was driving the chief engineer (Mr. Kiddl to the Docks, when his vehicle collided with another trap. The horse rail away, and was caught in 8t. Mary-street. There tbe trap overturned upon its occupants. Mr. Kidd wae badly cut and braised, and the coach- man wao severely shaken.

CHILD'S NARROW ESCAPE At CARDIFF. Walter Payne, the four-year-old son nf Mr. Charies P<tyne. a hrak(>81D-n employed 11' the Taff Vale Railway Compauy at Cardlf, en Monday morning accidentally fell into the canal at Biackweir. An alarm was raised, ,nd a bargeman named William Davies. pluckily rescued the ehild, Davies has }>rcviou<y *aved ¡::evpr:t1 lives in the canal* and holds the Royal Humane Society's medal for his heroic deeds.

SHIPPING CASUALTIES. Monday. B. Keireny, Austrian steamer, from Newport, atchored in Lundv Reads last night with broken cylinders, feed pump. Mimi, barqne. London for Port Natal, put back Deal lost awhor chain. Heathcraig, new vessel, previously reported considerably damaged while being launched Stockton, reported undamaged; vral dock for inspection. Blairgowrie, h3rqUe, Liverpool for Melboorne, pnt into Holyhead eteeriug gear or rodder out of order. Jame^eg Pendleton, barque, of Laor-ig. Gar*ton for Savannah, pnt into Stornoway yesterday short water, through water tank bursting. Aroot.—Jaragua telegraphs: American brig Arcot. Bahia for Barnados. aabore and totally wr'cked: had no carg?o aboard; crew snved. landed P^mambuco. Zeeht¡r,-Grave.e" telegraphs r 8teamer Zee- burg. from Buenos Ayre., lost 91 bollocks, 302 sheep. Gr,t,n. steamer, ,f London, P.-d S..tb??d bound np, in tow tag 01?. with m?hinerr ont of onkr,

DaMc WI' Chanomble Weatbw you &re .ef7 liabl? to catch & Cold, whiebm??y l?,r vOr? 8Omethin .erioaa Be wiP is t?m-N edit the flnt inUmatiau 2 Oold or Co*fb ak, & doM of Mortimer'* Mixtsre. l'b. beat-bown Ciw for Ooaghs And Qoife mm all oheofcu, to- JJd.

it-If to any *«en«ible pcrfon. He should have preferred that the work be undertaken by con- tractors. Ni liROI)Rl('K bility of getting any contractor to undertake the task, in view of the facts thru the rail- way ran through 6\1{) miles of country which 'W"" not under any civilised government, in which there wan a variety of tribes, to a large extent hostile; that the climate was par- ticularly unfavourable to Kuropeaus, that the guarding of thE. railway would be difficult, aad the fact that was too uiucb forgotten, but was perfectly well known to members when they discussed tho Question five ytxira ago, (hat no adequate Mirvey had been made or could be maUe. The only occasion on which a lilnilar attempt was Illdo wus in the case of the Snakim Railway in 188':), which had to he ab"ndou,,< The ouly terms on which the contractors would undertake the work wrre a percentage of any money thty found themselves obliged to spend. If a similar attempt were made in the case of the l/ganua Ka».way, the H4JU"<' would luive no control. He perfectly admitted th" t the additional sum they were asking for was larpe. but the teal test was a comparison with the cost of other ritil- "ay ot a single point had been shown in which more money had hcen spent than was necessary for the work c?irri out. The receipts were already £ 60.000 a year, and would cover the workiuJ: expenses. There was r,o reason t-o think the 011111 now asked for would not be sufficient to complete the rail- way. Sixty per cent, of the tnonty was •pent, but more thau sixty per rent, of the work was done, and they rniht reasonably believe that they knew the extent of their liabilities. (Hear, hear.) S r F*. GRF.Y iR.. Berwick^ said the late Government was responsible for the making of th- rauway, but with regard to the methods of making it he had no responsibility at all, in 00 far a* the Government had decided from time to time to make changes in the character of the railway :19 originally proposed. H b'l dno critcism whatever to otrer, bat tlie ♦annate had been greatly exceeded, even allowing for tbo;t changes, and ho resetted that that was the ?a?be. Tae rd iicy?tnL?e of ,? and thL country l??y. la" thought, iu tlie fact that the original estimate was entirely inadeqaae and misleading. lie ,1:(\ not think there was any ground lor charges of l1li,. manazement or waste. tut tile iroverninent ahould, in h1s opinion, have made it more clear In tho firs: iIunaJlcc how exceedingly speculative the fir>t estimate was. Mr. LABOUCHK'il! >R.. Northampton) com- plained that a 8chelnf" fer the uiaUius or a light railway to I jcanda had. without any attempt to obtain tho iunctiou of tile House, been turned into one for the coin-trurtiot:, at an infinitely greater cost, of a h???,y railway ;,thi.ch ?.as not a railway to ruldj" lHar, heav.> th:. method* of 1.Tt"h.:ng at engineering <ti\t,. rn3tes which had heen employed, anti which. he said, must necessarily involve great expen.se. Sir RKNRY CAMPBLLL-BANNLRMAN (R" Stirling Burghs^ suid he could not vote for an amendment whidl 1ta.. equivalent to a 1uotion for the rejection of the Bill, since he thought it would be out of the question to abandon an undertaking which had been carried so far. But he.nevertheless, thought it had been clearly shown that serious nr.s'ukes had been made, ria", no doubt—at least, in part- to the en- tr-t1:3tin¡;r of t3 construction of the railway to the authorities in charge of it. and he did not think that th() rEprc(,l1ta,ti\.<" üf tht." TOIXMSU Office had he-cn able to auswer at all satisfac- torily the criticism* which had l>^eu made. At the same tim, he did not think the system of construction could ho changed, and ha re- peated that he waa unable to support an amendment which, he took it. had lwen moved less from a feeling of opposition \0 the scheme* than a protest ;1!lai:¡,1 the methods b," which it had bell carried oU On a division ther vuied— For th» amendment 53 Against "26 Government majority 173 The Bili was read a second time. SKA FISHKRITS MM.. The arljonrn.1 debate ou the Order for the second re.1{in of the Sea Fisheries Bill was the. resumed. Mr. HAHHY FOSTKR \l"" Suffolk. Lowestoft, who continued his intsrrupted speech in sup. port of iHr Cameron Gull's UMtion for the rejooction of the measure, couteuded that the J;;i1) wou'd impo:-e a wholly unnecessary restriction upou the great industries of the C0UDt ry. Sir Y. COLOMB U.. Great Yarmouth^ opposed the Bill. Then President of the Board of Trade had prop >?*d a Select Committee 38 a deans of modifyinsr the opposition of D.10mbcT. reprV ntinO the fishing industry, but the last :n.. )i:dittr, l:\hec: mittee of the House was not a fit tribunal to tieal with t 1)e question. If r. RITCHIE: Then I withdraw the offer. I.kf r. FOSTKR: You canuot do that. >'r .1 O^LOMft: I don't believe the right Inn gentleman really means tba Mr. RTTCFUF: I thought I was conciliating f1'f' hou. n:{>11l1t'. II is opposing a Select l ;nnJi:t. and. under the circum-tauoes, 1 Withdraw it. Sir J. I'OT.OMB said he was not opposing the appointment or a Select Committee, and he was not ungrateful for the offer, but it wns no the best madÜnery for investigating the rnest ion. kf, er furt-h" fiHcusnion the Itnii-e- divided. i!'i" tigurcs beta?:—For V<M amendment, ii; szainst. 100: majority, 147. The Bill was read a oee"nd time and was 1"f<ferre-rt to t Select Committee. NAN-AT, Ri:FRN'F IMOBILISATIO' BTLL. Tni Bi?l entered p.. it. Comnvttep stace ,l,i,h, ??t iiid.igilt ?p?- an amendment by llr. Caldwell. PHOSPHORUS IN MATCHMAKING Captain NORTON R.. Newington. N.i moved a r?oln ion decVrms that, in tbo oninion .f the House the sci,d rulcs cmhndiNI in the Factories and Workshops Acts with regard to employment in lucifer match rnct()ri. whc-Te .hite or yellow phosphorus w,, <!H.lployed, .11ght to he annulled. Ihis was seconded by "ir (' VIL1\E ?R.. Forest of Dean>. who expressed the belief that worse thJ 11 the old one. Sir L\THEW RlJH.r,;Y 'Home .Secretarv) said that if an opportunity offered to imp-ore the rules, that opportunity would be taken, but in the meantime he thought it would he most nndes-irable u> abandon what had been obtained because it did not so far enough. After some remarks from Mr. Tennart. Jtr. Buxton, and Mr. teadman, the motion a:! nesratired by 98 to 37. The House adjourned at 12.