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ITHIS EVENING'S liNlERTAiNMENTS.

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——— -?.?. _?.? I I yv?/?y. JAN¿RY _z:8 I Yestfrday the first sods of the new works to be ereotpd for thn Dowlais Company on the ) ast loorl at Cardiff were cut Ity Mr. (1. T. Clark, Sir \V. T. Lewis, and Mr. E. P, Martin, At Cardiff yesterday an inquest was opened upon the body of William Phillips, a man &¡.d 76, who died under very suspicious cir- cumstances. The wife alleges that deceased or Sunday morning fell downstairs. But the nature of the wounds Oil the body and the whole circumstances surrounding the case Kive a much more serious a"p"ot to the affair, and the wifu has been art-eated charged with inflicting the wounds which caused death. The inquest was adjourned until to-morrow. A man is in custodv at Kamagate charged with shooting at and wounding three persons m the street; two of the injured are in a dangerous condition. The remains of Mr. Idris Naunton Davies were vesterdny interred at. Dinas, amidst UIIUSURI manifestations of respect and sorrow. 1 he blinds of workmen's cottages on the road sides through which the cortege passed, a dis- tattce of two or three iiiiies, were a last token of respect for their departed doctor and friend. Sir Samuel Griffith, the Queensland Pre- n ei-, has proposed to invite Lord Wolseley to visit Australia to inspect the military force and advise upou the defenoes of the various colonies. At Nlerthyr Police-court yesterday, after a hearingextendingover several hours, Jeremiah Hurley and Edward liowen were committed for trial at tho assizes for highway robbery with violence at Penydarren on Christmas J-ive. A terrific and destructive explosion occurred yesterday morning at lliglake Colliery, Audley, Staffordshire, throwing 000 Ultmout of work. No lives were lost. The Ifev. William Rudd, aged 83, super- annuated Primitive Methodist minister, of Diss, dlirl suddenly in the pulpit of the Methouist, Chapel at New Buck-iibain on Sunday night while in the act of giving out a hymn. It appears that the number of 'persons killed by mining explosions in 1887 was 142, or thirteen more than in the previous year. The average for the ten years endillg I in 188(1 was 2-30. We publish this morning the first of a new series of letters from our correspondent, Mick Malone." Yesterday the Times attained its centenary, having been published first under its present title on January 1, 17»8. Yesterday the Northampton boot and shoe operatives resumed work at all the factories exet-pt that of N] essrs. Cove and West, where the dispute originated. On Sunday night the great Alhambra Theatre at Antwerp was totally destroyed by lire. In connection with the Pope's Jubilee, 2,500 congratulatory telegrams were received by his II /II ill"slI on Sunday. Sunday evening the safe in the booking- office of Pembroke Dock Wail way Station was opened during the absence of the officials and over 133 stolen. At Monmouth Police-court yesterday James Pask, a »)urer, was committed for trial at the charged with the man- L-lauahter of NVilliaiii Parker, a woodman, of Trelleck Grange, whose death resulted from injuries received in a tight with defendant. The mysterious death of David Blore, an assistant schoolmaster at Middlewich National School, is now believed by the police to be a case of highway robbery and murder. At Newport Police-court yesterday James Price, who described himself as a barber, was remanded charged, on his own confession, with iiiui-dering a girl LieaLr Iluijgdrfurd in May, lôïll,

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IMICK MALONE'S LETTERS.

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THE FUNERAL OF COLONEL! MAtn!?.…

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