South Wales Daily News

TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION AT CARDIFF. A meeting was held ab the University College, Cardiff, on Tuesday evening of tho Technical Instruction Committee, Mr T. H. Riches pre- siding. A letter was read from Mr David Shepherd, the clerk to the Cardiff Intermediate Education Scheme Governors, stating that his governors approved of tht suggestion of a Con- sultative Educational Committee, and would, when necessary, appoint representatives to serve on the committee. (Hear, hear.)—The Chairman I think it will be a very good thing for the town. The matter has not yet come before the College Council, and it is to be laid before the School Board at the next meeting of that body. There p was some discussion upon asubject which is likely to cause discussion. The matter arises out of. regulations of the Education Department, which provide that ohildren attending the Elementary Schools, who have not passed the sixth standard, cannot receive instruction or the benefit of technical education, the point being that children who receive benefit of Government assistance in the schools cannot at the same time benefit in the Technical Schools. This applies more partic- ularly to lads attending the shorthand classes. It was suggested that Principal Jones, Registrar Jenkins, and Mr Riches should wait upon the Education Department, upon the first convenient opportunity, so that the matter might be settled.

SHEBEENING AT CARDIFF, FURTHER CONVICTIONS. The Cardiff Stipendiary on Tuesday had the usual batch of shebeen cases to deal with and four further convictions were recorded. Henry Jones, of 19, Nelson-street, for selling beer without a licence on the 23rd of February was upon the evidence of P.O. Arthur Wheeler fined Blo and costs, or one month's imprisonment. A: similar charge was also preferred by P C." John Male against Mary Ann Batty of 13. Homfray-street, but was dismissed, her mother. Ellen Batty, however, the occupier of the house, being mulcted in a penalty of £10 and costs, or one month s imprisonment, for consenting to the illicit sale of beer. Michael O'Brien, for selling: beer at 23, Mary Ann-street, on the 16th of last month, was fined 20s and costs or seven days white a penalty of 409 and costs or seven duvs was imposed in the case of Mary Splan for com- mitting a like offence at the same house on the 23rd February. Neither of the defendants bad been previously convicted for beer selling.

t <t J GREAT REVOLUTION IN TAILORING, s 1 .r > > THE WEST END TAILORS I I HAVE NOW OPENED THEIR NEW PREMISES S AT 19* DUKE-STREET, CARDIFF, And are showing a Magnificent Selection of aii the Latest Novelties to 'SUITINGS, C O AT INGS, j T R O IT B E R I ETC* S| | AND LADIES' COSTUME CLOTHS | for the ensHIng Season; selected from the most Gelefchited -MahrffiefcawH in the United Kifagaoirti a The Leading Features in fcHeir Business will fee as follows » V GOOD STYLISH-FITTING GARMENTS. SUPERIOR TRtMMINGS, SOUND WORKMANSHIP, AND HIGH-CLASS MATERIALS, COMBINED WITH PERSONAL PROMPt GtTARANtfeK^ A SAVING OF 25 PEtt CENT. NONE BUT SCIENTIFIC WEST END LONbON CUTTERS ENGAGED. tADlES' COSTUMES i SPECIALITY. ti A ti i fe s • if t f f t t1 L ROOM b N FC R o FT £ Ffcbbfe; HspctÍd Fkfefei^ iNVITE6 WlfHOUf böitPotstOÑ T6 PURCHASE. THEiR TROtJtts fd MEASURE AT ite 61; AM SIMPLY A MARVEL. t '4' '}' I; l TItEIR SUITS Td MEAStjfefe At Ifo 6 ARE tlkEWlS^ bjsrit iN "(' 1, G AJRDIf P j i 9 XJtJKE-STREETi ¡tOURS tip BUSINESS: 9 AM. TlfjB 7. ssaS

"W&DSOJTMARCH MEETING. WINDSOR, TUESDAY. :-O-The BRONZE BOBSESTEEPLECHASE of:ESO; weight for age, etc. Two miles and 1C0 ya-rda. Mr R. Craig's The Seer, a 12-1 21b Dnacoll w.o. Winner trained privately. 2.30—A SELLING NATIONAL HUNT FLAT RACE of B70 the winner to be sold for £50. Two miles. Count. Zech's Unionist, a 12st Mr R. Gore 1 Mr Godsall's Morda, 5y list 101b ..Mr D. Thirlwell 2 Mr C. Duff's Springbank, a 12st .Mr C. Thompson 5 Winner trained by Williams, Winchester. Betting—7 to 4 on Morda, 2 to 1 agst Unionist, and 100 to 8 agst Springbank. Unionise made the whole of the running and won by a length a bad third. The winner was bought in for 120gs. 3.0-The UPTON HURDLE RACE PLATE of S40 weight for age, etc. Two miles. Mr Lebaudv's Lumberer, a list 71b.. R. N'ghtingall 1 Mr E. Rose's Query, 4y lOst 31b Mr H. Ripley 2 Winner trained by W. Leader, Wroughton. Betting-3 to 1 on Lumberer, who waited on Query to the straight, and then drew out, winning by four lengths. 3.30—A SELLING HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of £ 60 the winner to be sold for B50. Two miles. Mr F. Wear's Zigeunerin, 4y list .G. Williamson 1 Mr 11. Gore's Maddenstown, a list 121b Owner 2 Mr W. Garde's Uasement, 4y 12st lib .Matthews 3 Mr G. Parker's Hitrum Scarum, a list 31bMr Ripley 0 Capt. Edwards's Roicidus, a lOst 101b Aitken 0 Sir W. Ingram's Down Quilt, 4y lOst 91b Bland 0 Winner trained by Hornsby, Wantage. Betting—11 to 10 agst Zigeunerin, 2 to 1 agst Base- ment, 8 to 1 agst Maddenstown, 10 to 1 agst Down Quilt, and 20 to 1 agst others The winner made all the running and won by three lengths two lengths divided second and third. Zigeunerin was sold to Mr R. Gore for lOOgs. 4.0—The BERRSHIRK HANDICAP STEEPLE- CHASE PLATE of B200 the second receive:! £10. Three miles. Mr W. C. Keeping's Biscuit, a lOst 131b ..Matthews 1 Lord Coventry's Mediator, a lOst G. Morris2 Captain Aikin's Redhill. a list 101b ..Mr H. Ripley 3 sCaptain Ricardo's St. Anthony, a list 71b. Escott 0 Mr Ribbert's Marcellus, a list 21b ..R. Nightiugall 0 Mr Leyland's Westmeath, a 10st 131b. Williamson 0 Winner trained by Wheeler, Rottingdean. Betting-5 to 2 agst Biscuit, 3 to 1 agst t. Anthony, 7 to 2 agst Redhill, 6 to 1 agst Marcellus, 100 to 14 agst Westmeathj and 100 to 8 agst Mediator. Mediator settled down in advance of Westmeath, Redhill, and St. Anthony, with Biscuit last. After going about a mile Redhill joined Mediator, and the pair went on clear of Westmeath and St. Anthony. When about five furlongs from home Redhill drew clear, and Biscuit took second place. At the last fence Redhill was beaten, and Biscuit drawing away won by half a distance all the otheis walked in. 4.30-The ATHENS HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of B70 the second receives B5. Two miles. Mr W. G. Stenens's Lady Campbell, 6y lOst 41b G. Williamson 1 Mr J. Lowe's Mum, 4y lOst P- Lowe 2 Mr G. C. Scruby's Heatherwell,5y 10st21b.. J. Jones 3 Mr H. Hyams's Charles the Third, 4y lOst 91b R. Nightingall 0 Winner trained by owner. Betting-7 to 4 agat Charles the Third. 5 to 2 agst Heatherwell. 11 to 4 agst Lady Campbell, and 4 to 1 agst Mum. The latter led to the straight, where Lady Campbell drew to the front and won by two lengths; one length divided second and third. BETTING ON THE COURSE. LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP. 9 to 1 agst Clorane, 5y 9st 41b (w) 1000 to 40 Court Ball, 5y 7st 41b (t) GRAND NATIONAL. 2500 to 100 agst Biscuit, a lOst (o, after winning the Berkshire Steeplechase, 1000 to 30 laid previously) 3300 to 100 — Cunning Boy, 6y 10st 21b (t) 1000 to 30 — Van der Berg, a 10st 91b (t) SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM MEETING. SHEFFIELD, TUESDAY. 2.9-The BEAUCHIEF NATIONAL HUNT FLAT RACE PLATE of B40 the second receives £5, Two miles. Mr H. logger's Collina, a 12st41b Mr Gale 1 Mr E. Mooney's Greek Lad, a 12st 41b Mr Shiel 2 Mr Y. R. Graham's Stanch, a 12st 41b Mr Gordon 3 Mr S. Jolliffe's Billbrooke, 4y list 41b ..Mr Grenfell 0 Winner trained privately. Betting—2 to 1 on Collina, 5 to 2 agst Billbrooke, 8 to 1 agst Stanch, and 100 to 8 agst Greek Lad. Won by four lengths five lengths divided second and third. 2.3C-The MASBRO7 SELLING STEEPLECHASE PLATE of £40; winner to be sold for £50. About two miles and a half. Mr H. Sidney's Balzac, a 12st Owner 1 Mr G. Menzies's Lamb's Fry, 4y lOst Mr S. Menzies 2 Winner trained privately Betting-5 to 2 on Balzac, who finished alone, Lamb's Fry falling a.t the open ditch. 3.0—The FITZ WILLI AM SELLING HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of jMO the winner to be sold for £50. Two miles. Mr W. Ward's Melodrama, 4y Ust. .I.at,hom 1 Mr J. Perkins's Good Boy, a list 61b Ellis 2 Mr Grenfell's War Queen, 4y list 7lb Owner 3 Mr G. Bland's Alice Hampton, 6y 12st 71b..Howard 0 Mr H. Lapidus's Edwm, a list 71b Thornton 0 Mr W. F. Lee's East Linton, a list 31b Holland 0 Mr Goodman's Emblem Queen, 4y list Banner 0 Mr Wilkinson's Latest Intelligence, 4y lOst 101b Mr Sharpe 0 Winner trained privately. Betting—5 to 2 agst War Queen, 4 to 1 each agst Good Boy and Melodrama, 5 to 1 agst Alice Hampton, 7 to 1 agst East Linton, and 10 to 1 agst others. Won by two lengths a length and a half separated second and third. 3.30—The SHEFFIELD HANDICAP STEEPLE- CHASE PLATE of £ 80; the second receives £5. Two miles. Mr R. Earn's Lord Percy, 5y list 81b Hassall w.o. Winner trained bv Hassall, Hednesford. .4.0—The^CUTLERS' STEEPLECHASE PLATE of 1:40; the second receives 1:5. About three miles. Mr C. Hunter's Olymprey, a 12at Mr Gordon 1 Mr H. Sidney's Cunning Boy, 6y,12st Owner 2 Winner trained privately. Betting—11 to 4 on Cunning Boy. Won by twenty lengths. 430-The HOLMES STEEPLECHASE PLATE of £40; weight for age, etc. Two miles and a half. Mr Shedden's Quoru Lass, a I3st lib ..W. Sheddeu 1 Mr J. E. Rogerson's Molly, a 12st 51b Taylor 2 Mrs Whitworth's Mi33 Lolla, a 12st 51b Holland 5 Mr John Widger's Sefton, 4y 10at 12lb Mr J, Widger 0 Winner trained by OWBWV Betting—5 to 4 on Sefton, and 4 t» 1 each agst Quorn Lass, Molly, and Miss Lolla. Won by three lengths a bad tnlrtu

LtNGFtELb MAliCH MEETING: TO-DAY'S RACING: ORDER OF RUNNING. Groombridge StfeepleCliaSe, 2.0 Greetiburst Steeplechase; 2.30 • Southern, Haridi- tap Steeplechase* 3.0; Stayers' Handitapl Hurdle Race, 3 60Overnight Hurdle Racs; 4.0? March Hurdle Handieapt 4.30. 15 jN TRIES GREEIN-HUflsf STEEfLEcHASE.-Younp .'Tom (aged); ZtUo (aged), Wynberg (aged)j Bridesmaid (6y); and Uncle JCdward (4y). OrRRNiGHT HtHiDLE RACE.-Navarro (aged), Gold Leaf (aged), Knockdolian (5y), Stoughtott (4y)j Vaiskita (4y), Felpham (4y), and Andante (a-ed). STAYERS HANDICAP HURDI/E RACE.—.Toe Millet (aged) 12st 71b, Congress II. (aged) 12t 51b, Knock; dolian (oy) list 21b, Free Lance n, (5y) list, Eight Bells (ged) lOst 111b, and Katfi Paradise (6y) lOst 51bi ARRIVALS. Whaddon Chase, Pomard, Gratis, Peter the Packer, Commodore, Call Boy, Racer, Jess, Aqua Rosa, Cariickanerla, Miss Ellard. Hattie, Vulture,Joe Miller, Eight Bells, Congress II., Free Lanes II., Knock- dolian, Kate Paradise, Uncle Edward, Young Tom, Zoto, Wynberg, Crepu, Bridesmaid, Navarro, Gold Leaf, Stoughton, Vaiskita, and Felpham.

DONCASTER HUNT MEETING. TO-DAY'S RACING. ORDER OP RUNNING.—Badsworth Flit Race, 2.0; Selling Flat Race. 2.30; Scarborough Steeplechase, 3.0 Corpcration Hurdle Race, 3.30 Selling Steeple- chase, 4.0 Stapleton Park Steeplechase, 4.30. ENTRIES. SELLING FLAT RACE.-Draconic (aged), Winterton (6), The Miner (aged), Clansman II. (6y), Gemma J)onati (4y), >li.ss Morgan (aged), Bohemiau Boy (by), Mistake (aged), and Grand Vizier (4y). SELLING TEEPLECHASE. -.Bohemia (6y), Lord Zet- land (aged), Coenraau (by), Snow Queen (6y), lialzac (aged), Brown Tony (agud), War Queen (4y), and Glamis (aged). ARRIVALS. Aminte, Aldbourne, Bilbrooke, Balzac, Beanstory, Bohemia, Brown Tony, Bohemian Boy, Champs d'Or, Clansman II., Collina, Coanraad, "Cunning Boy, Draconic, Dowie Den, Grand Vizier, Everton, Gemma Donati, Glamis, Hagiopean, Iping, Kingslev, Lord Percy, Lord Zetland, Mathioli, Mistaku, Miss Morgau, Miner. Pharpar, Ration, Rathdrum, Royal Douglas, Snap Shot, Snow Queen, Shootaway, Woodcock, Winterton, and War Queen. Several otheis are expected in the morning.

iltJNTlsd APPOINTMENTS. d11 AMOftG.>NStl 1 HE ilOCND^, Wednesday, Mar. 4, at Sycamore Tree, at-ll-a.m. Friday; Mar. 6', at W«nvoe Village, at 11 a.ni. _a, YSTRAD EOO-NDS. Friday; Mar.^6, at Coedygetrys, at 10.30 a.ra CARMARTHENSHIRE FOX ROCHN"DS. Friday; Mar. Cothi Bridge, at II aan- x: Cf^MBttOKESniUB HOCNCS. Thursday; Mrvr^S,■at jlayscastleCross,,at ll a.ni'. m. ,TtVY:SLi>:i, FOXHOUNDS. Thni^da-y. Mar. 5, at Tegryn, at,-10:45 MR SEYMOUR ALLEN'i? HOUNDS'. Ftid&y; Mftt: 13; at lilangolman. at It a^u.

StsBBintierg has joined W: tender's beam at WrbiigHtdc: Ot outsiders Supported yesterday fpt the Gioand National; Oatistic, Ctiiitting Boy; Wd Man frrdtri Borneo, and Biscuit had most backers; ^This .work done by Morton's horses yesterday ifciltlfessied. by tbe Amerieaii sportsriiahv Mr Pfofeferj and his sdbi who ilre bn a visit to Wautagk The gdlf fcompStitidh concluded oa Monday over the littRs Hfc Padj Alex. Herd exactly doubling his score Of SittUtdity ahd Winning frith 306. A\lëb tot,loijio \V8 ftefcobd with 3i6, and Vardon, f Btlry, third with §20. Simpson's score was 521 and DottoraU's i323. The open champion (Taylor) and Lloyd both retIred. Mr Egerfcon Clark hftd a lot Tof trouble with Ardcarn after the horse Carrie into hi possession-. Mr Olark called in a veil-known vet. who operated successfully on Ardcarn for stone in tbe kidneys, and it is now said that the nnimM is bettor bharuhe ever WAS in his life. The saloon of Messrs Ormo and Sons) Mtknehi-s- ter, was packed yesterday afternoon, when MrA Richards, of London, opposed J. Mack, of Manchester, in a game of 7,500 np, Mrs Richards receiving 3,750 points start. Ib was only what was expected, that the lady would be nervous, and Mack opening the proceedings with 175, took all the life out of her. Her chief items were 14- and 22, whilst Mack made 99 and 54-. Scores Mrs Richards, 3,883 Mack, 625. Isaac Murphy, the celebrated coloured jockey, whose death at Lexington is announced by Ameri. can exchanges, was one of the most respected members of the fraternity. He was able, hone&t, and true. He never pulled a horse or robbed tha public or his employer. The Spirit of the Times says the advice he once offered to one of the most phenomenal f.mshers and dishonest scoundrels that -ever mounted a horse is well worth pondering over-by certain drivers on the Turf. You just ride to win. They get you to pull a boss in a selling race, and when it comes to a stake race they get Isaac to ride. A jockey that'll sell out to one mn will sell out to another. Just be 1- honest, and vou'll have no trouble and plenty of money." Early backers of Horizon for the Grand Na- tional had a very rude shock a fortnight ago when be came to grief in the Prince of Wales's Steeplechase at Sandown. won by Nepcote. Then Mr Greswolde Williams's handsome horse lost friends innumerable, but yesterday he gave an even worse exhibition, and his chance at Aintree would now seem to be remote indeed. Set to coucede 13lb to the Stanton trained County Council, and with his trainer m the saddle, the long odds of 4 to 1 were wagered on the Lewes trained borse, for County Council has onlY once previously been over a steeplechase course, then picking up a small race at Strat- ford-on-Avon nearly two years ago. It coald never be said that Horizon jumped really well in the race, and when his sohtary opponent, to ride whom Captain Ricardo had to put up 81b extra, closed the gap between them at 5he last fence, the favourite collapsed, and County Council upset the odds in the easiest possible manner. So impressed ware the bookmakers by the per- formance that all sorts of liberties were taken with the loser for the Grand National, and he was speedily knocked out to a long price.

ALLEGED FRAUDS AT CARDIFF. PRISONERS :CO.M:MITTED. Augustus Williams (21), a traveller, of re- spectable appearance, was again brought up before Mr Stipendiary Lewis, at Cardift Police Court, on Tuesday afternoon, charged :—(1) With feloniously stealing a watch on the 21st Decem- ber (2) that being the bailee of seven watches, three rings, a brooch, and albert, valued at jB15, did fraudulently convert the same to his own use between the 6th December, 1895, and the 10th January, 1896 and (3) with fraudulently converting to his own use a lady's gold watch, two silver albert chains, and three gold rings, valued at £ 7 10% between the 5th December, 1395, and the 20th of February, 1896. the whole being the property of Messrs Alfred Milner and Co., London. Thomas Edward Rees (35) was also charged with receiving cer- tain of the articles well knowing them to have been stolen. Further evidence having been tendered as to the pledging of the goods, both prisoners were committed 1ï:. take their trial at the next Quarter Sessions, bail being allowed themselves in V4, one surety in f;24 or two in L12.

BRITISH WATER GAS CO. ALLEGED FRAUDULENT PRO- SPECTUS. The hearing of the action Christie Y. Fox and others, in which plaintiff, a Yorkshire gentleman, claims damages on the ground that he was induced to purchase shares in the British Water Gas Company through the issue of a fraudulent prospectus, was continued in London A.'1 before the Lord Chief Justice. Mr Wade,^ an engineer, said the gas could b^ used for welding, but was of no use whatever for smelting or illumination. Mr Alfred Wilson' who sold the factory at Stafford to Mr Samson Fox, who is a civil engineer and chief defendant, deposed that the gas was valuable for lighting, but he had reported to Mr Fox verbally that it was useless for smelting. He expressed the belief that the company failed through commercial bungling, and because the directors devoted their attention to Stock Exchange transactions instead of its development and sale of the gas. —Alfred Davey, engineer. Sheffield, said be joined the board at the request of Mr Fox. The directors attended meetings day after day in London, but never discussed business. They were always disoussing the vicissitudes of the shares on the Stock Exchange, how to run them, and how to keep them from going down. When witness tried to talk business to Fox he always ran away, and witness accordingly cleared outof theconcern. —The hearing was adjourned.

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FAIRY TALES OF SCIENCE. SOME ANIMAL HISTORIES. M, Br J. H, SALTKB, B.SC. B er* 's a 'and of romance into which Anyone, m*fe'ler bow slight his claim to be called a uralist or zoologist, may follow the student of una life. There stiil walk the earth in this n age creatures which can a tale unfold," beside the truth of which fiction looks Purposeless and pale. One after another these t *!° 1'Rbb. Each of them is not to be u ^rsk instance without labour, which be comparedtothatof deciphering thecrooked *0 faded type of some mouldy and worm-eaten page. But what does the enthusiast for pedigree reo of bis toil if rewarded at last by the discovery of a name or date ? Just as well repaid is the zoologist when he finds that the old-time race which for ages has slept in the family vault (in this case the rock) has left a living representative In whiob, spite of all disguise, he recognises the long lost heir. Such creatures there ore-living fossils we may call them since they are as hopelessly out of date nowadays as the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus were when they left their caye, When next you are at THE ZOO with respect at that New Zealand Wizard, which has an enclosure all to "self with a pile of stones wbereon to sun itself or in which to hide. It IS one of your modern upstarts, like our English lizards, which Whisk away from the warm bank by the roadside AI you pass, but comes of so ancient a stock, and be kept up the family traditions so well that naturalists recognise its claim to stand aioof from the common herd of lizards, and have done it honour by making II. new class of reptiles for its special accommodation. For does it not possess amongst other heirlooms a remnant of that Upward-looking eye by means of which some ancestor, still more remote, while keeping the usual look-out sideways, had a third optic to spare for danger coming from above. Our own BLIND-WORM OR SLOW-WORM has a reliooftheaame organ m a more degenerate state. The -auteca to giv8 It its native name, xlates back to the golden age of reptiles, when the scaly giants had it all their own way, and Atlantosaurus, most ponderous of them alt, dragged its slow length along, a clear hundred out tn°ba a^6 6° tlP ta' ^u6 our ,izar(* tarns pretensions mere cre.ature of yesterday when its those rif nth i antiquity are compared with those of other claimants. A lamp-shell, fished up from sea-depths or thrown up on the beach, looks much like a cockle under similar circum- etances..Yet lamp-shells, or rather their occu- pants, might be excused for giving themselves sirs, tor their ancestors were tenants of the first te whose waves ever beat upon a shore. The "uobites crawled or swam beside them, looking Perhaps like gigantic wood-lice, but ages have fone by since the last of the trilobites slept in Atone. Another race, strong in joint armour, has it the curious king-crab as the sole representa- tivo of the family name and fame. But THE LAMP-SHELLS ^ited in so well with their surroundings from the ■tst that they have not needed to make concession to modern Ideas by changing •beir form or mode of life, bub oarry 011 business under the same old style, !!o like their grandparents many times removed tbat we should hardly know them apart if they were similarly fossilised. But this clinging to old traditions has not answered so well in every case. 'THE LANOELKT. was when fishes like our modern sturgeon, their skins armour-plated and beset with tooth ftOd spike, took the lead amongst their finny Tomppers. But the sharks were equal to the Occasion and developed plates of grinding teeth eapable of crushing the husk of a ganoid. Still worse, fishes like the cod and herring came forward to show that swiftness and agility pay better than mere blundering strength, so the Sanoids had their day, and but half-a-dozen inds of them survived. There is little or nothing in common between the ironclad fish and bho little semi-transparent lancelet, but the latter A STILL STRANGER TALE TO TELL. may turn them out of their hiding-places in sands of shallow bays, and see nothing in our Capture more worthy of note than in a two-inoh **nd eel. On second thoughts it is ratliec strange Jb»t the creature should taper to a point at both ends and have no bead, or at any no eyes to show where the bead be. Why, then, is the lancelet so precious in the eyes of the zoologist that •riii fc^an 9b°u'd become extinct lie would «*illiogIy spare the whale or elephant ? Why have been written describing its every part, and **pers unnumbered upon the same subject been to learned societies ? There is a ha'o of «< round every valve and crank of the old And uet'" PrOoen'tor of all locomotive engines. *th lftncelet is the first vague sketch of a fish, ji. working model, as it were—so simple in its ucture that we should strain flattery too far to it a fish. For it has NO SKULL, NOR JAWS, ^hinR\\ and hardly a suggestion of a brain. I *vhat t^ie 'ast deficiency and what it involves, *hllt enviable freedom from mental strain, what thftt heedlessuess of existence! This is why hiffh °Wll>K it, ouch matters hold the lancelet in j6"3' I* is the expression of a new %he fi VS c Do,i worked out in its perfection till C8t came into being. For the gap is a 0119 between the lancelet and the fish of aton36 00ni'Dff rt throws out a hint. It is a small »P upwards to the lamprey and hag, which 0 »gain without limbs or scales or framework AJYa- Anomalous but still living, the and l models atill work. Looking at the lancelet 4, «n Prey we 800 wb»t naturalists mean by »nd r?'V0rs a primitive type." But the ancient ,tj~~ Unchanged are in a small minority. The of the rocks shows that progress has been fibe COnstant watchword. Animals have from the hi»fc unconsciously reached after something wvf- u Sometimes we can trace the stages by they have bettered themselves. What vouible connection is there between the bird, JOYOUS SPIRIT OF THE AIR, •j|THE gliding snake ? But KO far back into the and the difference between birds and reptiles 0-evident. Reptiles possessed the earth and U Wrf *bove it on leathery wings. Shall we call t»hik l' dragon, this strange customer #i baa left its impress on the Solenhofen of i •* teetb of a lizard but the quills IT a bird an equipment of feathers lias turned 'IDY-Jointed tail into a rudder. Do we not Jj5" the reptile in the very act of taking posses- °f » new element. Bnt we can make out a °^se fcbe bird's ancestry having been n this wise. The 'South American Hoatain, wost conservative of fowls, still hints so strongly the origin of its race that it has been termed a .reptilian bird" We hear of "missing i!°yL^!Jrf°rt, £ ately many links have tK ™ nf im^Vfery fn,mal more or less tells the story of its anowtry at one special stage of its existence. The adult may be in greaWy improved Circumstances, structurally it may ha%e »grown 0". of knowledge, but some mystio charm still mpels it before birth or in early life to tread the Steps by which its ancestors worked its way °»wards. So it comes about that the embryos of ►eplile, BIRU AND ANIMAL, atf¡ at one stage indistinguishable, and that still earlier the plastic outline, before it takes }be shape of the life that is to be, has some- suggestive of the fish about it. Along the side of the neck of the young fowl or "bbit a series of slits make their appearance, like the gill-clefts of a fish. Gills there are none, for 40 air-breathing existence follows. There IS only way in which the inscription can be read. "'shes were the primal ancestors of all, a development lets out the secret. The rpm»J o nshes crowd the rooks long before bones of lizara P'bird bear them company. The tadpo r. hearses every act of the family history, shows l „ person its fish progenitor, till, growing Oibitious, it substitutes lungs for gills, and out on the bank. In most animals jbere are parts, now useless, whioh are to explained as relics. The only true teeth which the whale possesses are sbed at an early „5*ags before there is a possibility of using them. parrots and turtles throw out the same hint of a toothed ancestor. Man's body has been described as "a museum of relics." Nature long Preserves even the useless rudiment, as if willing Jo indicate by a finger-post the way by which we nave come. An illustration is furnished by some STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF THE HORSE. & "srof"wT fruo^,y family tree, and by reference toTts'Sitrree all points of difficulty about the st^cture of our modern horse are removed. It is a story of small beginnings, for even a Shetland pony would look down upon his nondescript, no bigger than a sheep, with some- thing of the air of a gigantio rat abotit it, for it seems that in the great class of the rodents or gnawing animals the equine race took bumble foot. This first representative of a family for Which the Fates had great things in store dates back to Eocene times, when the London clay was laid down. It was probably slow-going, for we scarcely imagine it cantering wibh its abort ■e^s and spreading five-toed feet. Eohippus passed Jway, but only to be succeeded by improved Ioni&a of the same type. Its successors were of araer growth and TROTTED UPON LONGER LIMBS. 'lbeir toes, no longer five, were reduoed to tbree, '1Ic) of these the middle one grew larger till the other two ceased to touch the ground. How it ended we know our present day borse rests each foot on the tip of the remaining toe, upon each side of which is a small splint bone, last vestige of a digit which became useless ages since. The riddle would be hard to read if the rocks had not furnished the answer. Now and then a horse may be found whose legs are marked with stripes like a zebra's. We have here a reminiscence, as it were, of the banded coat of its ancestors. Similarly amongst fancy pigeons an individual will now and then show the colouring of the ancestral blue rocks." But side by side with the It WINNERS IN LIFE'S RACE," we find others who have been worsted in the struggl. The tendency is not always towards perfection—an organ may degenerate, a sense be lost. The owl-parrot has hunted for insects on the ground amongst fallen logs till it has lost the power of flying. Moles see but dimly, if at all the blind proteus knows only the night of its sunless caverns. Other life histories have a tragic ending. Such is the case with the" sea. squirts, which begin life gaily, each fur- nished with a simple form of backbone, and with the possibility, if alt goes well, of ankllJg as high as fish. But they miss their way, fix themselves to stones, and become soft, colourless lumps, so that for long they were thought to be akin to the sea-snails. In other cases parasitism is the root of the mischief. There is a distinct relative of the shrimp and lobster whose early days give promise of a respectable career. We scarcely know it as the soft, ova! mass sometimes found tucked under the tail of a crab. The fatal change coms about when it gives up living by its own exertions and is con- tent with the borrowed juices of the crab. In every society there will be loafers of this sort. Amongst) animals they are but few, and their existence brings out in stronger relief the perfec- tion of structure to which the majority have attained.

NO WORK, NO MONEY, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN ST. PAUL'S William Carty, formerly manager to a West End firm of decorators, who died suddenly in Cornwallis-road (Islington) Workhouse, left this letter:— To the Coroner,—If I am found dead I have taken laudanum. I can stand the poverty no longer. I have no work and no money. I have bad neither sleep nor food for two days. Deserted by friends. I am cold and very miserable, and am driven by fate to drink the fatal draught of laudanum. Please give my body to some hospital for the use of the students. On Tuesday I took one ounce of laudanum in bt. Paul s Cathedral, and was very sleepy for two hours. 1 was afterwards very ill and bad. It is just my luck. I am all right now. There were no relatives of the deceased present at the inquestfon Monday. The evidence of the labour master and two inmates of the Workhouse went to show that the deceased had been An inmate on and off since January, 1894-. On Wednesday evening he wa3 sitting on a form in the day ward. He had just filled his pipe and was about to light it when he suddenly threw up his arms and fell back dead. Dr. Crabb stated that death was due to syncope from heart disease. There was no trace of poison. Verdict accord- ingly.

QUIt COUNTRY COLUMN. Brahmas are as large as Coohin Chinas, hardier, more active, and lay larger eggs. They were known as excellent winter layers, but, unfortu- nately, of late years have been so much exhibited at poultry shows, where prizes are given entirely for shape and feather, that some of them are losing their valuable qualities. The thoroughbred Brahma has a small head and a low comb, either single or double. They have square broad breasts, and very short tails, and their legs are feathered to the toes. There are two varieties— the dnrk and the light. The light Brahmas are considered the handsomer birds. The cock has the feathers of each hackle laced with black. The tail and the quill-feathers of the wings are black, the wing coverts white; the breast and thighs are light grey and white. The wattles should be long, and the feet and legs yellow. The hen is a very elegant bird. The hackles and tail are white, each feather being tipped with black. The breast and body are white. The breed has a tendency, when carelessly bred and underfed as chickens, to grow long-legged and narrow- breasted, and these lanky fowls bring the breed into disrepute. The constitution of the chickens when bred from good strains is excellent; they cannot be surpassed in hardihood, and can be reared in any weather. Mr Wright, a most successful breeder, states that the fecundity ot the hens is very great. In spite of their propen- sity to set, many will produce over 150 eggs in a year. We have bad hens which wished to set when they had laid 20 eggs, while other!! would lay from 50 to 100 without stopping." Mr John Evans, Keynsham, writes :—" I have kept an accurate account day by day for a year of the number of eggs laid by three Brahma pullets descended from prize ancestors. During the period named the total egg production of these birds amounted to 629, and I am morally certain that two of these pullets laid so much oftener than the third that they must have averaged 250 eggs each. Two pullets, hatched from one of these birds on the 7th of March, began to lay on the 16th and 17th of August, before they were six months old, and laid without intermission till November 11th, when I sold them; and a granddaughter of one of these pullets laid 60 eggs in 62 days." Candy, to be of real service as a bee food, must be sufficiently soft to allow of the bees taking it without difficulty, bub stiff enough to prevent it running down among the combs, and thus doing damage instead of good. Softl candy is made as follows :—Take 71bs of pure cane, loaf, "or white crystallised sugar, add oz cream of tartar, and put it into a brass pan containing 1% pints of boil- ing water. Stand the pan by the side of the fire and stir with a wooden spoon until the sugar is melted; then put the pan on a brisk fire. Bring the syrup to the boil, stirring meanwhile and until it begins to thicken and look creamy. To test its fitness take a little oat on a spoon and drop it into cold water if, when worked with the finger and thumb it is sticky, it must be boiled a few minutes longer. As soon as it becomes of the consistency of candy, take the pan off the fire and set ib in another pan of cold water, then stir briskly until the mass assumes a stiff creamy appearance. It will then be ready for use. The simplest method for dealing with it is to spread sheets of paper upon soup plates and pour the candy upon them as soon as it has set; before it becomes cold the cakes should be placed, one in each hive, upon the frames, paper upwards, so that the quilts do nob become sticky. Syrup.— Later on in the season, when bees fly freely and breeding is progressing, candy may be changed for syrup, which in the spring is made by boiling or even melting 31bs of cane sugar in aW quart of water. It is important that the syrup for spring food should be thin or the bees are compelled to fetch water into the hive to dilute the food. These include many beautiful species, among which may be mentioned Auratum (the golden- ra^ed lily of Japan), Candidum (common white garden lily), and the Bermuda or Easter lily, Belladonna lily (Amaryllis belladonna). The flowers of this effective, very useful, and easily grown bulbous plant are white, flushed and tipped with deep rose. The plants should be intermixed with fern or other foliage plants, above which the bare spikes of flowers would show to advantage. The Guernsey lily is also an easily managed subject, producing flowers of a brilliant crimson scarlet, which have a dazzling effecb when seen in the sun's rays. For pot culture use fibrous loam, leaf-mould, rotten manure, and sand in about equal parts and in a rough state. In potting leave the top of the bulb exposed, and a space of about two inches from the rim of the pots for top- dressing the plants in due time, namely, after they have made growth, forming a mass of roots at its base on the surface of the soil. All lilies require being kept uniformly moist while growing, and being kept free from blight. Regarding the use of liquid manure, it is impossible to lay down rules applicable to all cases, but the subject is so important that it is as well to note both its benefits and abuses. The first point to eruard against is using solutions of definite strength at certain fixed times. Like the foolish practice of watering at fixed times, it either gives less water than is required, or gives it when not needed. Watering should be regulated by the state of the weather. On a hot or dry day, or during a drying wind. more moisture is required than during damp weather. If, therefore, water- ing is of such importance, it behoves everyone to be doubly careful in applying liquid manure. There are two points which should ever be kept in mind first, give plants stimulants when in full growth, and then only when the soil is moist, The roots must be in a condition to assimilate the manure quickly, or it will prove injurious rather than beneficial. The other frequent mistake made consists in giving too strong a solution far better give the same strength in two or three doses. Freshly.potted plants do nob require liquid manure, as the fresh soil contains sufficient food in itself. When the pot has become thoroughly filled with fresh roots an application of some solution will be of great aid and benefit to the plant. The strength of the solution so depends on the class of manure used, and also the kind of plant, that no guide can be Riven. Again, some plants prefer one kind more than another, but) if care is taken to apply it weak, nearly all kinds of liquid manure are of benefit. The necessity for extra food is healthy growth and hungry roots; without this stimulants are decidedly injurious. An interesting facti in connection with the development of this breed is its recognition by the Show authorities. Kerries were first exhibited at the Royal Dublin Sooiety's Show in 1844, but not until 1876 was a distinct class provided for Dexters. Kerries were firsb provided with a class at the "Royal "in 1862, while by 1889 (at Windsor) the two breeds had so gained in nonu'arity that 136 animals were exhibited. Another important step was when the Smith field Club provided a section for v- •„« and Dexter Kerries, ab the same time K?rKV hw classes for small breeds. The im- establishing classes^ fcy portanoe of the fjr9t time recognised as these cattle we connection it may be men- beef producers. In this itbfie,d Sbow of im tioned that ^er the » fo„owed tha a three year old Kerry beins a mortJ usefol butcher, where it was ^ated been Been the or satisfactory carcase and fnll of lean meat being juicy, of fine co'o "nature." The live weight was lUcwt iqr. 261 bs., and the dressed carcase weighed showing a percentage of dressed oaa weight of 61-84. The forequorters weigheajosc. 41bs, and the hindquarters 21st. 71b. Kerri now more and more in request for cross'?^ v" larger breeds (such, for instance, as the Aoera Angus) for the production of small beer. Whether at home or abroad Kernes have always fattened well, and the beef is nicely marbled, In fact, taking size into account, the Kerry ]8. both. as a milker and as a beef-producer, equal if not superior to any other breed of British cattle.

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I LATEST MARKETS. I LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET. LIVERPOOL. Tuesday.-Bacon-Firmer cables and advices of small shipments are sufficient to keep the market at a steady level, but the demand contonuaj disappointing and without improvement Shoulders meet a moderate inquiry, and New Yoriu favour sellers. Hams remaiu a slow sale bub without quotable alteration in price. Cheese tinues inactive, and quotations are /bout late experience a quiet consumptive inquiry at about late rates. Butter is rather slower to move, and supplies ss* xrasaiss ss* xrasaiss continue on the easy side. Beef and pork both meet a slow inouiry at previons currencies- Slow inquiry £ QUOTATIONS. „ t T.jto mean 53s 9d to 73s 9(1 Beef, extra India mess — — — P°PMmPeemSi. Western 48s 9d to 53s 9i Bacon, per 1121bs.: 0(1 to 0,1 Colitinental 32s Od to 58 Od American nnmiml Long clear, 55 bs. average o.l Long clear, 38-451bs. ditto 27a Od to ^Ss Od M £ 1: "3 Cumberland cut, 28 to SZIbs. ditto. 28s 6d to Jls Cd SM?es IS L° S §S Short clear backs, ISlbs. ditto 27s Od to 28s 6d Shmdders N?YT cut, 10-141bs.— 24s 6d to 26s Od Uitto square cut, 12-18!bs 25s Od to 28s 6<J Bams, per lJ21bs Long cut, 15-17 average36s Od to 41s Od Short cut, 14-16 37s 6d to 41s 6d Lard, pot ll21bs I Prime Western Steam 27s 9d to 28s Od American refined lard, <281bs. pails, 283 3d to 28s 9d 1121bs. firkins. 27s Od to 27s 6d per cwt. Cbeese, per 1121bs. Finest States and Canadian, 42s Od to 44s Od. Butter, per 1121bs. Danish-choicest, 112s to 117s: choice ditto, 94s to 100s. Irish creameries, 102s to 105s do factories, 90s to Os. States creameries. 60s to 65s. 'German Kiels, 108s to 110s German factories, 102s to 0s. Australian, 100s to 104s. Finest margarine, 57s to 60s medium 47s to 52s low, 32s to 40s. Eggs per 120: Irish ben. 6s 2d to 6s 8d duck, 9s 3d to 9s 6d Continental,fresh, 5s 8d to 6s 2d finest Danish, nominal. Canadians, pickled, Od Od to Cs 0<.1. IMPORTS OF PROVISIONS. .n rr.A § m 6 a, 2 go u's 8S Jis ■SA'GS JGJA ,§ £ SJ? HJ wpq £ £ {2 Wq mk a" M To-day 2833 225 541 10070 918 65 41 This week 3869 225 928 10409 1518 65 75 This year 96605 5516 23933 158805 36297 10199 9789 Last year 87331 4060 2268 106278 30827 8903 9135 LIVERPOOL FOREIGN PRODUCE. I LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—Sugar—the cane market con- tinues quiet, an(I no business of importance concluded. Crystals are unchanged—No. 1, 16s 9d small, 16s 3d No. 2,15s 9d granulated standard, 15s 3d coarse, 16s 6d tine, 16s 6d. Coffee-tile demand continues quiet at unchanged prices no further business reported 79s bill in auction to-day for 15 bags elephant berry. Cocoa quiet, values unchanged. Rice—the market has a brisker tone, and a little more business moving at firm prices. Tapioca flour-uo change to notice in demand or values. Sago quiet, but no change in prices. LInseed-the market is1 steady, and prices keep somewhat firm. Canary seed—the demand is only very small at the decline in prices. Cotton seed—the easy tone continues, and no sales to notice for spot or forward values unchanged. Carnauba wax—a fair demand continues for good yellow, but stocks are almost nil a steady business passing in grey quality at about full prices. Annatto a steady demand con. tinues, sellers holding for full prices. Castor oil- the demand continues small, and the business done has been at recent quotations. Feeding cakes at to-day's market were quiet, but without change in prices. Tallow in moderate demand, with a limited business doing at late rates. Palm oil-the market is very quiet, but very little offering, and business concluded only moderate sellers of Largos, March, at £19178 6d transit. Olive oil continues firm at late rates. Cotton seed-a steady business passing at recent quotations. Linseed oil quietly steady, and sales made at 20s 6d Liverpool make in export barrels. Resin continues in moderate request at 4s 9d to 4s 10%d for common grades. Turpentine is quiet at late rates. Pretroleum steady, but business is limited quotations unchanged. CORN. HULL, Tuesday.—English wheat was only in poor supply, and last week's prices fully maintained, English making from 26s to 27s foreign steady at 25s to 27s 6d per qr. Barley unchanged, malting selling at 21s to 23s and grinding sorts, 18s per qr. Oats in fair request at 14s to 16s. Beans scarce English making 27s Egyptian, 20s. Maize 3d cheaper, selling at 15s to 17s 6d per qr. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—Wheat—quiet trade at I Friday's full rates; No. 1 Californian, 5s 9rI to 5s 10%d No. 2 winter, 5s Pd to 5s 9d. Beans—Saidi, 24s 9d to 25s; Smyrna, 23s 9d to 24s. Peas, 4s 9d. Oats—white, 2s 2d to 2s 3yod, being %d lower black, fine seed sorts, Is lid to 2s 2d. Maize—fair trade at quotations-new mixed, 3s 0y4d to 38 0l/ad. Flour unchanged. Weather-S.S.W., unsettled. CATTLE. ROATH, CARDIFF, Tuesday.—The supply of cattle on offer at our market to-day was hardly up to the average, good quality being scarce. Sheep and lambs were plentiful, and there was a large supply of calves. Pigs were plentiful, and prices remain with- out change. Quotations Cattle-best steers, 56s per cwt; secondary lots, 52s to 54s per cwt; cows and bull*, 43s to 48s per cwt. Sheep-prime yearlings (nice weights), 8d per lb; ewes and heavy sheep, 6y2d to 7d lambs, lOd per Ib calves, 7d to 9d for a few choice extras. Pigs-baconers, 6s 6d to 6s 9d middles, is to 7s 3d small porkers, 7s 6d to Ps per score. Mr Gottwaltz disposed of a few pens of sheep under the hammer at satisfactory prices. The attend- ance was good, and a considerable amount of stock changed hands. At the close little remained unsold. BIRMINGHAM, Tuesday. Fine weather. Fair supply of cattle and sheep, slow trade; short supply of pigs, demand fair. Beef, 5d to 6%d I mutton, 6d to 8V4d per lb bacon pigs, 7s porkets, 3s 2d to 8s 6d sows, 5s to 5s 2d per score. MAUPOJtn, Tuesday.—At market: Cattle, 2,663; prices in favour of buyers. Sheep, 7,694, trade firm. Calves, 317, with fair demand. Quotations :-Cattle, 4V2d to 6Vid sheep, 6%d to 9d calves, 6d to 8V4d per lb. PRODUCE. e ¡,OlomON, Tuesday.-So:ng;lr-no public sales of grocery; crystallised were held to-day, and no business was reported privately home refined fully steady; foreign firm; granulated being about dearer. Beet-firm it %d advance —March quoted at 12s Z%d April, 12s ol/id May, 12s 6%d June, 12s 8%d July, 12s9d Augu-t, 12s l&Vid. Coffee-aiiet,ions met fair demand at steady rates Rio futures without material change. Cocoa-sales went quietly. Tea-sales small, quantity green offered, very few changed hands, biddings being considerably below importers' limits over 15,000 packages Ceylon offered and sold at barely last week's rates; tea for price was in demand at previous low rates. Shellac—sales met fair demand, orange, of better standard than T.N., s-lling readily at about Is advance. Central American indigo sales progressing without change. Rice and jute unaltered. Turpen- tine, 20s. Siunu. SLASGOW, Tuesday.—Market quiet, but steady fair business done. The official report states Better inquiry, and a fair business done at firm prices. BUTTER. CORK, Tuesday. — Ordinary —seconds, 99s; thirds, 88s fourths, 76s. Mild curea-fiiie mild, 103s. In mar- ket-56 tivkins, 14 mild. FISH. GRIMSBY, Tuesday.—Twenty-five steamers and 30 smacks arrived with a fair supply strong demand. Soles, Is to Is 5d turbot, 9rl full Is, 7d lobster, <2s ?er lb ;pH?ee, 3s Sd to Is 3d lemon soles, 8s whitings, s 6d whitches, 4s live halibut, 8s dead, 6s per stone; live ling, 6s dead, 3s live cod, 4s to 78 dead, Is to 4s each; live skate, 6s dead, 3s each hake, 50s to 100s; roker, 20s per; score; kit haddocks, 16s; live dabs, 22s dead, 18s per box. HAY AND STRAW. LONDON, Tuesday.—Fair supplies and trade dull at the following prices :-Gootl to prime hay, 60s to 85s inferior to fair do., 36s 10553; cood to prime clover, 65s to 87s 6d interior to fair do., 38s to 60s; mixture and sanfoin, 50s to 85s straw, 20s to 4041per load. WOOL. LONDON, Tuesday.—The second series of London Colonial wool sales for the year commenced this evening. The catalogues, which comprised a good selection, consisted of 2,980 bales New South Wales, 2,962 Queensland, 316 Victorian, 905 South Australia, 144 West Australia, 1,875 New Zealand, 488 Cape total, 9,670 bales. There was a very large attendance of buyers from all parts, competition neing spirited and sustained for every description compared with the closing prices of last auctions. Merino wpOls slow at an advance of a full 5 per cent. Crossbreeds par, to 5 per cent. Available quantities for present series, including 22,000 old stock, amount to 288,191 bales, less 52,500 bales Australian and 295,000 bales Cape forwarded direct. Present series are arranged to terminate on the 24th inst. METALS. LONDON. Tuesday.—Copper firm fair bnsiness-246 cash £ 46 7s 6d three months. Tin quiet; moderate business— £ 60 10s casli B61 three months. Spelter, £ 1417s 6d. Spanish lead, Bll 7s 6d English do., £11 10s. Scotch pig iron, 47s 6%d cash hematite, 49s Id cash. Closing,report. :-Copper slightly easier— S45 17s 6d cash 246 three months. Tin steady. Straits. £ 60 10s cash 961 three months Australian, jB61 5s to £ 6110s. English ingots, B64 10s. Spelter, jE14 17s 6d. Spanish lead, Rll 7s 6d. English do., Bll to £UIOs. Scotch pig iron, 47s 772d cash. GLASGOW, Tuesday.-Market again firm; good busi- ness. Scotch done at 47s 7d. and 47s 8d cash 47s 9%d, and 47s 10d one month buyers, 47s 7 Hid cash sellers, 47s 8d. Cleveland done at 38s 8%d and 38s 9d cash buyers, 38s 9d cash sellers, lfqd more. Cumberland hematite done at 49s 5y2d cash 49s 6d one month buyers, 49s 3%d cash sellers, 49s 4.1. Middlesbrough hematite—buyers, 46s 5%d cash sellers, 46s 7Vod.

ACCIDENTS AT CARDIFF DOCKS. On Monday, about 7.45, Peter Whitecross, 8. Ceeil-strpet, Cardiff, met with a nasty accident whilst at work trimming: coal on board the Marie Teresa, Bute East Dock. A large piece of coal fell from the shute and struck him on the head, inflicting a somewhat serious wound. First aid was rendered by Berthingman Gulliford and. Dock-constable Edwards, who conveyed the man to his home. At 3 p.m. on Tuesday James Hurley, 12, Sandon-place, a coal trimmer in the employ of the Bwllfa Coal Company, fell down the hold of the s.s. Rosebud, Roath Dock, but fortunately escaped with an injured arm. First aid was rendered by Dock-oonstable3 Foster and Hutton, and the man was conveyed to the Infirmary. At 8.20 on Tuesday an accident befel George Underwood, 5, Crichton street, Cardiff, an employee of Messrs Spillers and Bakers, who, whilst working ab the Atlantic Wharf, Easb Dock, fell from a stage to the ground and dislocated his ankle. First aid was rendered by Dock-constable O'Keefe, and the man was con- veyed to his home. At 10. <0 on Tuesday George Purnell, 68, David-street, Cardiff, was injured about the face and hand whilst at work discharging grain from the 8.8. Beneficent, at the Atlantic Wharf, East Dock by a shute on which he was standing giving way. throwing him to the deck, and pre- cipitating two sacks of grain upon him. First aid was rendered by Dock-constable O'Keefe and Inspector Bell, and the man was conveyed to the Infirmary,

I FAIRS FOR MARCH. 2 Llanwnen 13 ar" — — 2 Carmarthen 16 Aberystwyth 2 Tregaron —16 T8V 3 l.etterston 16 tefela*h 3 Pnntardawe -16 Haw —3 Haverfordwest .— — 17 EnLi.7™ 5 Narberth J? • — 6 Newcastle Emlyn..„™ 24 9 Cowbridge,„ 24 M^n^i 10 Llandovery 24 Maenclochog 10 Qeiiigaer.: 25 Llangadook 12 Neath 25 IJanarth 12 Pembroke 30 IJanarth 12 Pembroke 30 Lampeter. 12 Llangyfelach 30 Talgarth 12 Llandilo 3« Ystalyfera 12 Crymmych 31

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REFEREEING INCIDENT AT SWANSEA. LLANELLY INTERPRETATION OF THE UNION'S VERDICT. The ordering off the field of W. J. Thomas one of the Llanelly forwards, by Mr Taylor in the Swansea and Llanelly match continues to be very much talked of in the tinplate town, where-that is in football circles- the decision of the Match Committee in accepting the reporc of the referee, but deciding to do nothing further in the matter," is no doubt regarded as a victory for the player. In a conversation which I have had (writes our Llanelly correspondent) with a preminenb member of the Llanelly Committee, it was pointed out to me that the Match Committee had no alternative but to accept the report of the referee, lie being absolutely authoritative on all questions of fact. But," my informant added, the* real feeling of the Match Committee appeals in the rider, that no further action be taken in the matter.' That can have only one meaning, and of course we-the Llanelly Committee, and the players aiitl partizans— accept it as an expression of opinion that the ordering off was ill-advised. If the Match Committee were of opinion that bad language had been used, and unne- cessary roughness exhibited, surely a penalty would have been imposed. If the Match Committee held that view, it would have been their plain, clear, andimpera- tive duty to suspend Thomas it would have been a grave dereliction of duty to take the contrary course, But no ;,uch punishment was meted out, and in the rider of the Match Committee we have the fullest guarantee that Thomas was unnecessarily ordered oG. i he Llanelly Committee courted investigation, the player courted investigation, the team were in favour of an inquiry and we court it still. Meanwhile how- ever the resolution of the Match Committee can only bear one interpretation-the interpretation I have described to you."

YORKSHIRE v GLAMORGANSHIRE. YORKSHIRE CRITICS ON THE PLAY. Writing in the Yorkshire. Post, Old Ebor," says Yorkshire did not win by as large a margin as was expected, nor was the play up to anticipations in a general sense, though the high wind must be regarded as partly responsible for this. Yorkshire had a long way the better of the game, their lines only being really threatened Ance just before half-time, and for a few minutes in the second half, when with less reliable defence tha Welshmen should have scored. Still, the home team can be complimented upon having played a really good defensive game. Their forwards stuck gamely to their work, and were clever all heeling out the ball, though they never attempted to rush or wheel a scrummage. The brothers James were also very smart, not so much in making openings as in stopping rushes, for they never hesi- tated to go down to the b»ll before the toes of the Yorkshire forwards. Both they and Myers, on the Yorkshire side, often transgressed the off-side rule, and Mr Wilkins might have penalised both sides more than lie did for this transgression. Morgan, Bancroft, and Davies all played well on the defence, and Lloyd once or twice gave trouble on the wing. The Yorkshire forwards did not quite come up to their Surrey form, being chiefly at fault in not getting possession of the ball, and making the play open. Speed, Ward, Rhodes, and Conley were perhaps about the pick. Mosley played a good game at half-back, and barring the tendency to bring penalties on his side, Myers did the same. Fookes was the best of the three-quarter backs, and Parker also played well, but neither Murgatroyd nor Hambrecht had many chances of dis- tinction. Dixon again played excellently at full back." The special correspondent of the Leeds Mercury, who also witnessed the game, says The game, taken as a whole, did not quite realise expectations, mistakes being far more frequent than they should have been on a ground in such excellent con- dition, Nevertheless, Yorkshire fully deserved their victory, as they had far more of the play than the home county, Broadley controlled his forces with admirable judgment, making the forwards take the burden of the work in the first half, when his men had to face a strong wind, and so keeping the ball as close as possible. With such tactics he succeeded in having v'T' an advantage, though not a great one, prior to the interval. Afterwards the Yorkshiremen almost wholly attacked, except, for a period of about five minutes towards the finish of the game. Glamorgan in fact, were only twice really within range of scoring' and their passing was scarcely ever allowed to be- come dangerous, Perhaps the best part of the work done by both sides, excepting always the strong rushes of the Yorkshire forwards, was ghown in defence, and Glamorgan owe their escape from :a more severe defeat to the plucky manner in which the brothers James got down to the ball time after time, and stopped the onward progress of the opposing pack There cannot, however, be any question that the match will answer the purpose for which it was made, and will be continued. This was evident from the style in which the Yorkshiremen took lessons in methods of passing from their opponents, and though they have certainly a great deal to learn before they can be said to be equal in that respect to the side they beat yesterday, it was equally evident that the work was executed in a better style at the finish than at the commencement of the game. Nothing, for example, could have been better done than the passing by which the second try was gained, and a little more practice and precision in the work of the backs be- hind such forwards as Yorkshire now possesses, ought to make her team even more formidable than it is at present." CARDIFF RESEBVHS V. ABERGAVENNY, Saturday March 7th. Kick-off at 3.30. 8646 ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL on Cardiff Arms Park, Monday, March 16tll, 1896. England v. Wales. Kick-off 4 p.m. 245e 8C44

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. CONVICTIONS AT CARDIFF. Inspector Allen, of the R.S.P.C.A., prosecuted Albert Gittens, a labourer, and Rohert Heri-idere, his employer, a haulier, at Cardiff pQllce Court on Tuesday—the former for cruelly ill-treatine a horse by working it in an unfit state, and the latter for causing it to be worked. Gittens was fined 5s and costs or seven days, and Herridge 40s and costs or 21 days. ° Rees Lloyd was summoned by Inspector Allen tor illtreatmg two cows on the 20th of February. The officer told the Court that he visited a shed at the back of 10, Portmanmoor-road, and discovered two red and white cows there. They were in a wretchedly emaciated condition, and lying utterly helpless. He could find no sign of food or water, while no bedding had been provided for them. Mr Perryf veterinaiy surgeon, said that be examined the cows on the 20th of February and found one of them especially very weak. in fact literally starving. He attributed their condition to the absence of food. One of them was very old,. and he did not think had food been there it would have put on much more flesh, The summons in respect of this cow was dismissed, but a fine of £ 5 and costs, or one month a imprisonment with hard labour, was imposed in respect of the second.

LOW LIFE AT CARDIFF. SAD STORY OF IMMORALITY. Regarding the case in which Edward Smith (39) was charged on a warrant at Cardiff Police Court on Monday with neglecting to pay 26 6s and costs, the amount due under a maintenance order to his wife, Mary Jane Smith, made on the 21st February, 1894, the complainant again went into the witness-box on Tuesday morning, when she was told by the Stipendiary that her husband had sin- the last hearing taken out a summons asking that the order of 12-s a week might be discharged, on the ground that alie J had committed adultery. The case wai then had committed adultery. The case wai then l further adjourned until Friday.

AftffidtPAtlONS. Ill shctWerf faeathet the Windsor Mefctltig was brought td Ml issdd this affcSfrioCih. tHe :tttend; ance WAS figdifi i tfery S fan all bilk; and the spdrb; which e&lls tor iilsiid showed tic) improvement on tháti el the ojjeiiiiig day; fc £ aif-tU dozen competitors faded the sti\rtier fot the chief event, the Berkshire Bbegptfcfciia&e; Of fciiise Biscuit at 5 to 2 was itt bett tètttiêsb; while St. Anthony at 3 to 1 and Itedhill ab 7 to 2 cairie in for plenty of support. The faVontite gaVè a very good display^ and after negotiating the final obstacle drew righb away and gained the award with great ease by A hundred ynrdi The outsider of the party, Mediator* occupied second berth, whilst the Liverpool Trial Steeple* chase winner was placed third. Lingfield in the south and Doncaster in the north will bobh be commenced to-morrow. At tha first«tia»ed fixture sport promises well, and for the firab day I shall rely upon the following March Hurdle Handicap-A. NlGHTTNCAU/s BEST or POMARD. G-roombridfte Steeplechase—COMMODOBE, Overnight Hurdle Kace—STOUGHTON. Greenhnrst Steep] echase,-CREPU. Stayers' Hurdle Handicop-JOE MILLER or KATE PABADISK. Southern Steepleebase-SOLEDA or CHAlfPION. For Doncaster my selections are as follows Scarborough Steeplecliate-WOODCOCK. Corporation Hurdle Handicap— SHOOTAWAY. Badsworth Fiat Race Plate--LOIRD PERCY. Selling Steeplecbase- BALZAC. Selling Flat Race-GRAND VIZIER. 1 Stanleton Paik Steeplechase— SWALEDALE. V Tu^clay Night. VIGILANT.

S^A&TiNG WINDSOR; PftlCES.^ RICE KBIISHS. WINNER $r8H £ e: 1 The S'efer *:<>: Selling:3 Unionist 2 td 1 ig 2 to 1 aw Uptoii: 2 J.umberef" -3 trf 1 on iSto-lou telling: fe Zisueneriri lltolOag iltolOag crkshire 6 Biscuit. .5 to 2ag ,5 to 2ag Ath&ns 4 L:Campbell;, ll td 4 ag 11 to '4 ag» SHEFFIELD. Beaucliief 4 Collin1; 2 to 1 on 2 to 1 on Masbvo 2 Balzac 5 to 2 on 5 to 2 on Fiizwilliam.; 8 Melodfaitia 4 to lag 4 lb™ Sheffield: 1 L: Perty w.0v Cutlers' 2 Olymptfev: 11 to 4 ag 11 to las Holmes 4 Quorn LasS;: 4 td 1 ag 4 to lag Holmes 4 Quorn LasS;: 4 td 1 ag 4 to lag

LONDON BETTING. TUESDAY NIGHT. The batting on the Lincolnshire Handicap was quiet, but following up Monday's business Clorane was decidedly favourite, 1000 to 90 being followed by 10 ro 1 to abou" £ 1,000, anil ifnally 9 to 1 was taken, t: this price was freely offered, 10 to 1 being meauwllij again accepted about Gangway 1C00 to 50 was booked to each of Amandier and 'lithonus, and 100) to 40 to Green Lawn. But few alterations were noticeable for the Grand National, though Caustic had good support at 25 to 1 a rate that was offered against Biscuit after her Windsor victory. The wagering in connection with Cunning Boy, St. Anthony, and Westmeath took place previous to their defeats at Rotherham and Windsor respectively. As regards the Derby, 450 to 100 was again accepted about Persimmon in a good quarter. Quotations :— LINCOLN HANDICAP. (Straight mile. Run Tuesday, March 24th.) 9 to 1 agst Clorane, 5y 9,t, 41b (t & (i) 10 to I Gangway, 6y Sst 61b (t & o) 20 to 1 Tithonus, 4y 6st 71b (t) 20 to 1 Amanclier. a 7st 131b (t) 25 to 1 — Green Lawn, 5y 7st 101b (t & o) GRAND NATIONAL. (Four miles 856 yards. Run Friday, March 27th.) 10 to 1 agst Waterford a lOst llb (t & o) 12 to 1 — Ardcarn, a list lib (t) 12 to 1 — Cathal, a list 131b (t & o) 14 to 1 — A lpheus, Sy lOst 101b (t & 0) 25 to 1 — Caustic, a 9st 71b (t & w) 33 to 1 — iEsop, a lOst 71b (t) 33 to 1 — Van der Berg, a lOst 91b (t) 40 to 1 Cunning Boy, by lOst 21b (t ) 50 to I Dollar If, 6y 10st illb (t) 66 to 1 St. Anthony, a lOst 101b (t) 66 to 1 Westmeath, a 9st 71b (t) DERBY. (One mile and a half. Run Wednesday, June 3rd.) 9 to 2 agst Persimmon (t)

NEWMARKET TRAINING NOTES. !FROM OUR NEWMARKET CORR.ESI>O.VI>E,T.) NEWMARKET, Tuesday. On the Bury side, R. Chaloner's Mississippi, Hobnob, and Grand National galloped a mile. J. Day's Beckett, Kirkconnel, Queen's Piper, Palaverer, Pilot, The Owl, Bournemouth, Gang- way, Grand Hampton, Royal Hazel, Macready, and Achlone cantered six furlongs. J. Dawson's, jun., Fitute de Mieux, Bolton, McNeil, Villiers, Springald, Eugene, Viiez, Tambour, Lord Hervey,Vizard, and Miss Fraser galloped a mile. G. Dawson's Chancery, Bank Holiday, and His Reverence went a mile and a quar- ter Enoch's, sen., Keelson, Mahmoud, Red Ray. First Consul, Heremon, and Seaholm going seven furlongs. Jennings's, sen.. Hoops and Dormeuse galloped a. mile and a quarter, Leader's The Rays and Tyranny went two miles Outward Bound, Seaport, and Lord Di ummond were sent a mile and a half. G. Platt's El Diablo, Clwyd, Wherwell, and Hebron cantered six furlongs. Ryan's Laveno, Positano, Chasseur, High Treasurer, Capraria, and Spica galloped a mile. Sherwood's Toreador, Cold Steel, and Sancho Panza cant.cred six furlongs. Waugh's, sen., Court Ball, Priestholme, and Bucephalus galloped the same dis- tance. Waugh's Spur Royal and Sati went the same On the Racecourse side, Hayhoe's Amandier, Medicis, Galeazzo, and St. Frusquin cantered six furlongs. Sadler's Tithonus galloped a mile. Marsh's Eclipse and Persimmon went a mile and a quarter. Cannon's Stowmarket was sent a mile and a half.

A message from Chichester states that Mr S Woodland, the trainer, continues to make satisfactory THES'1' WATCHMAN,"—Double event, Lincoln and Liverpool. Published next Monday. 6d post free 7 stamps from Reece's News Depot, Llandaff OHILTONIS HOF-SES WORTH FOLLOWING. Sniino- edition 1896 now ready, 6d post free, contains their best distances, how they like the going, probable eiigagenaeiits and what trained for, and hints as to when best left alone.-Ackers-st., Manchester. CARDIFF RACES.-E^IEV Monday and Tuesday next under National Hunt Rules Stakes about £ 1,200. Entries close 17th March. Programmes may be had from the Hon. Secretaries, 11, High-street, Cardiff. DIAMOND SPECIAL, 611, 454. RACING WORLD says33, 4, 56, 71, 91, 106. GALE'S SruoiAU-One-horse selection at Don. j £ S't.-9, «. 56, 155,127. Monday special code Chaplin., SPORTING WOBLD saysOL, (, O, AI, < £ >, 52. MIDDLKHAM OPINION *?,"> 17 Pi T hrieir AT>nle • M» 36. Sa>ndown wires, 3s 6d. To-day's,'?'i words reply. R«feble do^«'Jinc?}? National, code, calendar, etc., Is.—MENTOR, Middle- LINCOLN SELKOTION.—Vftry confident. Post 12 stamps.—B. 1'*ESCOT, Pos'. Office, Epsom. 767 LINOOLN AND GRAND NATIONAL. Advertiser has just received special information. A grand double event. Will be sent on receipt of 2s.— Address, by letter onlv, J. BARKER, Post office, Swansea. 809 PAY REPLY S.P. COUP,—^IGANTIO special Thurs- day 5s 6d. Lincoln, National (will equal 1895), 5, Already sent 750 patrons, Uniteu Kingdom, Continent. Only last week I received letters asking advice re Big Handicaps from Calcutta, Port Elizabeth. -WEBB, Gerrard-street, Birmingham. 760

THE AUSTRALIAN CUP. I ,FI,EMINQTON, Tuesday.—The following is the result of the Australian Cup, run here to-day ■— IDOLATOR 1 WALLACE 2 hqva 3 Three ran. W!on byJhalf a head.—Rtv.ter.

CARDIFF EXHIBITION. PROPOSED R^EciSrON 'PAVTL^N. TFAC "SIMILE oilsilAKESPE-ARE S BIRTHPLACE. L Instead of the ordinary reception, pavilion it "has been decided to erect a reproduction of Shakespeare's birthplace at Strittford-on-Avon. ,Visitors to that "beautiful little town will, no jdoubt, recollect the old gabled bouse with its quaiq. lattice windows, aud Iow-ceilinged rooms, approached by a staircase, some of the wood- work "being as, old as the Tiouso'itself. It will be .remembered that notr so Very long ago an ^American syndicate was formed, which offered .to purchase the house and ship it to America. At 'this, however, the English people rose in indigna- tion, and a sufficient wim was iminediateiy fortli- coming, and the house-Of the bard of Avon 'became the property of 'the nation. It was restored at considerable nxpense, and now con- stitutes Sljatespearo's Museum at Stratford. Those -^HoftaVe Visited the house will, of course, retain iI.. "memory 'of the quaint Elizabethan garden, in which :ifi the flowers mentioned by the poet ^ve to be found. It is hoped that pos- sibly Mr Pettigrew-may be induced to reproduce this famous garden.

u THE LATE MR CASTELL0 AT t-kkt)I-FF THEATRE ftOYAli. THE DRESSES. (BY "OUR IJADY 'CORRESPONDENT. It is a. proof of the energy of the Cardrb the?.ttical managers that again the t h estre-g,);nf, public of that town are treated to one of the 'firs'. provincial representations of a piece which i? dtawibg crowded houses in London. The setting of tllé, ürst jplece, B-fore_ the Dawti. wa! particularly pretty. In the plav Mis* Lingard as Mrs Bickerdyke in the first ROb wears a handsome gown of yellow silk with A fAised narrow black stripe. Thct sleeves were evidently of the latest type, tight to tho ehouldsr, where they are finished off by tlwtf short frills of the silk, lined with black, a dainty muslin fichu finishing a mosb becoming toilette. Her two daughters both looked well. Sadie was in ideal mourning garb; the skirt is of dull crepon, the upper part and bodice of white satin, softly veiled In white chiffon deep band of blaek satin. In her "war paint" of blaok, with » widow's cap, cuffs and collar, she looks a model bereaved wife. Avis looks delightfully cool in a butcher-blue skirt, with white muslin blouse. In the second act she wore a tabsk brown silk the square-cut bodice was trimmed with scintillating seguin trimming. Mrs Bickerdyke looked stately in a handsome blue velvet dinner gown. The widow looked still more fascmat. ing in a black evening dress without a touch oi white. The sleeves were made of frills ot chiffon, and a deep jet fringe relieved the very sombre attire.

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