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TO ADVERTISERS. The South Wales Echo is GUARANTEED to have a. Larger Circulation than that of ALL the other Evening Papers of South Wales and Monmouthshire added 'together. As regards Cardiff alone, it is almost un. necessary for us to add that the circulation of the South Wales Echo is IMMENSELY GREATER than that of any other Evening Paper. ROGERS' AK ALES & PORTEI 1tS IN-4i, GALL0N CASKS and VPWARU- FROM 19D PER GALL9N BREWERY, BRISTOL. CARDIFF STORES, 21Je j 9, WORKING-STREET.

I The Man About Town. Virtue is still increasing in Cardiff. Two ¡ gentlemen of literary judgment have been appointed, I hear, by the Free Library Committee to run through the French and English novelists respectively to decide what shall be included and what not. The idea of a man who can read French actually being likely to sustain injury to his moral character by reading a doubtful story of Guy de Maupassant is amusing. But tne English Censor is the one I pity most. Being a gentleman of wide culture and liberal ideas he will regret that the great gain of absolute free- dom in literature should be held second to the chance and very uncertain prevention of harm to some immature reader who can always get what he wants elsewhere if he does not find it at the Library. But my chief reason for pity is the number of sad recommendations he will be compelled to make. If he is consistent and severe he will have to exclude Shakespeare, Chaucer, Congreve, Wycherly, Pope (who despite his Moral Essays wrote a certain Dunciad which I reeks with unutterable tilth), Byron (surely his Don Juan !), TenDysoii--reniember his Promise of May, which would never have been licensed by our friend Mr Piggott had it not been written by the Laureate—Sterne, Swift, in his poetry, Fielding,—and who not To draw a line is not merely diffi- cult it is impossible. The moment you ¡ admit that excellence in the design or pur- pose of a book may excuse immoral refer- ences then you throw up the case altogether, for that is the very excuse of the Zolaists, and it is impossible on such terms to over- throw them I am glad to see that the Catalogue is getting on. It is an immense labour, and only those who have peeped behind the scenes can realise the enormous perseverance and patience and ability needed for its accomplishment. The numbering of the books has had to be done anew throughout the whole library, they have been classified in the catalogue, cross-entered in several times for the convenience of readers, and every book has thus had to be pondered over, examined, and registered separately. As there are about 40,000 books in the Library altogether, it is obvious that the labour is immense. The beautification of our towns is a sub- ject which naturally attracts the considera- tion of all good men, and I am not surprised to find letters urging me to say a word for the planting of more trees. Some years ago it was decided to spend £100 a year in Cardiff on this excellent purpose, but whether the money is actually thus laid out I cannot say. But surely not merely in paved streets, but in the valleys, in the little villages which dot the gaunt mountain sides in the coal districts, there should be more done in this way. To make these places beautiful by art is not an easy matter but after the first small outlay Nature herself takes up the matter and spends her care to do the rest. + A gentleman of wide knowledge and ex- perience, Dr Horder, is anxious to see greater variety in the kind of trees selected. "I was glad," he says, to see your note about tree planting. I was going to treat on (no pun intended) the same question. Evidently great minds travel in the same direction I would like to put in a plea for fairer treatment of the trees already planted. Instead of having the soil rammed down over their roots, it would be well to have a grating surround- ing the trunk, so that moisture should have free access to the roots. Then, again, why are the trees always planted on the footpath ? There are many roads in the town wide enough to allow the trees to be planted in them without interfering with the trafue. Anyone who has noticed the effect of the trees in Windsor-place will" readily admit thElot when th" azk ,iu the roadway thev make a much better effect. Now, tlfere arc several roads which might be treated like Winusor-place. I will mention Senghenydd- road, Adam-street, Moira-place, Fitzalan- road, Clare-road, Splot-road, Dumfries- place. We want greater variety. I put in a plea for poplar. They are lwnly, grow fast, and retain their foliage a long time. I should like to see the copper beech tried and the silver birch. In many instances the Corporation have planted trees where they are not wanted, and where they prove a great obstruction to the wayfarers. Those in the first part of Cowbridge-road should be removed the pavement is too narrow and the traffic too great. Besides, there are plenty of trees in the immediate vicinity. I know Mr Councillor Thomas has tried hard to get some trees planted in his Ward. There is no part of the town where they are so necessary. Look at the East Moors district, not a blade of grass much less a tree to be seen in the neighbourhood. I do hope the inhabitants will try to secure a piece of the open ground opposite their houses as an open space. If they do not bestir themselves quickly they will be too late. Talking of open spaces, you will be glad to hear that there are actually h>x> irholr men at work on the Splotlands Recreation Ground Why, sir, at this rate the in- habitants will be able to recreate there in the short space of six months These suggestions appear to me to be admirable, and I have no doubt they will have weight in proper quarters. It is astonishing that—granted the lack of architectural beauty-there should be so little attempt at comfort within the modern house. I have so far dealt only with the outward appearance but who that has been about does not know the absurdity of our interiors < I grant that everything looks superb and magnificent. There are tiled passages and beautiful hall lamps and flowery wall paper and all that can please and bewilder the eye. But, 0 Reader, does not your whole being ache at bare remem- j brance of the diminutive rooms which even in expensive houses seek vainly to con- tain the householder ? In the dining-room, for instance, why should it be necessary at dinner for one per- son to sit on the hob, one on the sideboard, one on the sofa, and the otheron the window ledge ? All because the table takes up the whole room, and even edges into the grate. To get round it, to begin with, needs infinite precision and a long practised 'skill. I vow I have never once done it yet without either knocking over a dog—that is the word, is it not -with infinite clatter of tongs, shovel, and poker, or bruising my knee upon the corner leg. To seize and maintain the nar- row way between the two needs a knowledge of equipoise, to say nothing of navigation, which only an accomplished seaman, or an acrobat of many years' standing, or flying, can claim. Then, as you sit enjoying some tit-bit, a slice from the undercut, and are about to exult over a beautiful mouthful, you find some servant or guest seeking to glide round your chair, and you get a thrust forward which sends your head with a thud into your plate, your fork into the table-cloth, and your tit-bit into your negh- bour's eye. It is not comfortable it is scarcely decent. But what can one do 1 There are some people who seek to avoid the difficulty by making the front room a dining-room a thing to be deplored, because it hands over the finest apartment in the house to the vulgar monopoly of the cook. After all the room of art, of talk, of comfortable lolling should be free and open and cheerful. The drawing-room should get the light and admit your friends. But hen you cannot do it always; the best room has to fall to the servitude of the kitchen, and then what a stupid look the house has You hear a ring at the door. Mrs Slap- jacket pops her head over the balusters and says in a tragic whisper which can be heard across the street Mary—in the drawing-room 1" Mary mumbles reply and shuffles to the door-Mrs Slapjacket meanwhile rushing to her room to put on her black silk and do her hair up in knots. There is ushered in Mr and Mrs Plumpstocking and the Misses Plumpstocking. They are ushered into the drawing-room." There are two padded chairs that fill up the room and two straw chairs that swell out the corners. The room seams crowded never did the Plump- stockings look such a huge family. A thin pathway 111 between suggests there is yet carpet unsat upon but they look like huge islands in a narrow sea Then Mrs Slapjacket enters, all smiles and bobs, and pretends that she does not have to fall over Adolphus's legs and tread on Sophonisba's toe, till she is cannoned off the father into an occasional'' chair. They talk for a few minutes, and then- Won't you come in the next room Ah what smiling and pleasurable grimaces. The drawing-room is beneath contempt. In the front apartment there is at least sufficient cubic air for the mainten- ance of life—and they flee there But how absurd I will say nothing of the little rooms up- stairs. There is one man I knovf who has a study not big enough to hold all his mind. It spreads out of the keyhole and half-way up the chimney. It is very awkward think- ing when your mind is outside. But such are modern houses 0, the horror of them

CARDIFF LIFEBOAT SATURDAY. At a special meeting of the Cardiff Town Council to-day, the mayor (Councillor Vaughan) presiding, the Town Clerk read a letter from Mr Charles Dibdin, secretary to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, thanking the corporation for the part they had taken in the recent demonstra- tion at Cardiff in aid of the funds of the Lifeboat Institution. The Mayor, in reply to questions, stated that JS150 was collected in the streets, Alderman Lewis collected E7 5s in the mayor' s parlour—(laughter)—and the mayoress had col- lected between jS60 and F,70, (Applause.)

TO-DAY'S WEATHER 4.30 P.M. TO DAY'S FORECAST FOR. IUSUIJAND, S.W., -AAD i OUT 11 WALKS. North-easterly breezes mode- rate, fair colder. GENERAL.— Colder weather and northerly breezes of little strength are expected.

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The Cure of Drunkards. | MR STEAD'S METHOD, His Experiments on His Subjects, Mr Stead's appeal for half a dozen drunkards to cure has not been made in vain. He tinS gob, them, and he believes he has cured them, OUi" publication of his appeal for experlmontn! sub- jects (says the Daily Chronicle), brought him into communication with a startling array of vICtitn" of alcohol. He selected eight who were, to all appear- filice, fnrnished with completely "satisfactory certificates as to their thorough-paced drunken- ness." Four were men—two commercial travellers, one solicitor, and one ex-naval officer four were women-three of them married or widows, one of a spmister. Some, at least, of the eight had I inherited the drink habit. The sample drun- kards would thus seem to be fairly typical. All of them acknowledged the impeachment that they had been HARD-DEINKERS up to date, and one of them proved his compe- tency by arriving in a state of delirium tremens. There does not seem to be the slightest reason to question Mr Stead's account of his samples at the commencement of his experimental treatment. It any of them had come with the inane notion of a practical joke, their condition could not possibly have imposed upon the medical men in charge. We will pass them in, therefore, as DRLXK-SODDLW WRECKS, hopeless and helpless devotees of alcohol, whether from original sin or from hereditary misfor- tune. The treatment, Mr Stead assures us, was conducted under the eye of a fully qualified medi- cal gentleman, with competent assistants and was continued for a month from the 11th September. The conditions necessary to a fair and adeciuate trial were fully secured. The proper|administra- tion of the remedy was vigilantly carried out by night and by day. The nature of the remedy is not disclosed, naturally fnougli but Mr Stead says it is a powerful tonic of extreme bitterness and of drastic operation. During the first two days it reduces the patients to the depths of misery, with sickness, headache, and even feverish ague. Then they turn the corner and develop a healthy appetite, and by the end of a week they are fortified against their unholy craving for drink, so that they can safely be permitted to go at large through the streets of gin-palaces. A month, therefore, seems to be more than ample for THE TREATMENT OF THE MOST VICIOUS CASES. I Un the report of the medical officer, Mr Stead I prnciaims an unequivocal success. Seven of the eight samples ara pronounced cured. The eighth, however, is not admitted to be a failure for the woman—of course it is a woman—is alleged to have proved perverse, and did not, it is believed, conform to the regulations laid down." The exception is unfortunate. Still, seven cures out of eigrht cases, chosen with a special view to their extreme hopelessness, may well be accepted as a remarkable success, if indeed," as Mr Stead warmly says, it might not not be described as miraculous." But are they cured ? Mr Stead affirms that not oniy is the craving for drink killed in their system, but some of them are so overmastered with loathing for intoxicants that they have taken to the middle of the street to get clear of the reek of the tap- room that so frequently asstils the footpath, The mere whin of the smell of drink afflicts them with nausea. Well, let us hope that such is the very fact, and not merely an affectation of the patient or a sanguine surmise of the organiser of the experiment. We shall be interested to know tho later history of the various cases.

DEATH OF A WELSH REGIMENT VETERAN. A Remarkable Career. There has just died in Glasgow Corporal John Gallagher, a pensioner of the 41st Regiment, and a Crimean veteran, who would, doubtless, had he lived, have been at the banquet to bo given to the survivors of the Russian War and Indian Mutiny. The deceased was 67 years of age, and as his name indicates, was an Irishman. He enlisted in the 41st Regiment in Dublin in 1846, and, after a time marched to MuIIingar, where the entire regiment, with the exception of two companies, was on detachment duty in the small towns of West Meath in connec- tion with the potato famine. From West Meath the regiment proceeded to Cork, where it embarked for Corfu, in the Ionian Islands, at that time an English possession. This was in the year 1851. The regiment next went to Malta, and, on the outbreak of the Russian War in 1854, left the island on the 2nd April of that year in the troopship Himalaya, this being the first vessel to enter the Dardanelles with troops on board. The men landed at Scutari, and were later sent into Bulgaria, whence they were trans- ferred to the scene of hostilities, landing in the Crimea on the 13th November, 1854. The deceased was present at the Battle of the Aliyia and also at Inkerman, and he took part in the sortie on the 26th October, under Sir De Lacey Evans. He took part in the siege operations before Sebastopol, and served in the rifle pits under Captain Row- lands, now General Rowlands, Constable of the Tower. Gallagher was at the storming of the quarries on the 18th June, at the assault on the Redan, and at the storming of Sebastopoi on the 8th September. After the war he went with the regiment to the West Indies, and at Trinidad, when in detachments, yellow fever played havoc with it, 90 men and five officers dying of the dis- ease. He was discharged in 1867 on a pension of Is a day. Gallagher was a remarkable man, his cool courage in the face of danger being the admiration of all ranks. He had an inexhaustible store of animal spirits, and his powers as a vocalist and a spinner of yarns did much to cheer the men in the trenches before Sebastopol. He ¡. was a great favourite alike with officers and men.

THE LOTTERY CURSE. I A Tragic Story with a Moral. I The majority of people are agreed in believing that lotteries are a curse to any country, but this belief is often founded on the idea that men who invest always lose their money. A striking illus- tration of how even a "winniug"-and a large one—may prove a curse is furnished by the history of Richard Peniston, who has just died in Philadelphia an inmate of a charitable institu- tion. Twenty-five years ago Peniston was a promising actor, earning f,5 a week. One day lie was persuaded by a friend to buy a ticket in the Havannah Lottery. A month later he drew, and two months later received, in cash, a prize of i £ 100.000. This luck for a time drove the young actor crazy, and for a year he did not draw a sober breath. When he got over this spree he abandoned the stage and opened an immense public-house in Philadelphia. Then he took to gambling, next to the Stock Exchange, and in less than ten years he was broken in health and forttne, compelled to pass the remainder of his days in the Home for Actors endowed by Edwin Forrest.

MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN AUSTRIA Resignation of the Cabinet. VIENNA, M,)nday.-As t result of the Cabinet Council held yesterday under the presidency of the Emperor the Ministers have tendered their resignation, which has been accepted by his Majesty. The adjournment of the Reichsrath was only sanctioned by the Emperor with the,, object of allowing time for the formation of a new Cabinet, with which Prince Alfred von. Windisch Graetz (Conservative) will probably be charged. -.Reuter,

I THE COGAN WIFE STABBING. I Prisoner Again Remanded. This morning the man Alexander Mclvor, a boilermaker, of 13, Hewell-street, Cogan, ap- peared in custody at the Peliartli Police-court- before Colonel Guthrie and Mr T. Morel-and was remanded for another week, for stabbing his wife in the side with a pocket knife, on the 21st inst.—Dr. Ashley Bird, questioned as to when the injured woman would be able to attend, said she might on Monday next, but be did not promise.

THE DISTURBANCES IN ALGERIA. PARIS, Monday.—The Journal to-day states that a column will be constructed about the 20th prox. at Gardaia, some 320 miles south of Algiers in order to proceed to Touat, and that the cam. paign will be opened from El Golea.

RETURN OF MR BLAKE, M.P. NEW YORK, Sunday.—Mr E. Blake, M.P., sailed in the Cunard steamer Campania yester- day to be present at the opening of Parliament. -Reuter.

Extraordinary Village T rageely. I Attempted Murder and Suicide. A SILENT GRIME, A1 singular affair occurred at the village of Whixley, rtfeai' York; yestei'tliiy: Bosseil Atkinson is ft cewi leader, and lives iii a cottage iii the Village. He Was? linmat-ried, bub had adopted a boy named Daniel Metcalfe Cocker, about 15 y e,.krs of age, and they lived alone. He was occa- sionally Visited by a Woman npincd Anne Ibbot- son. Dutiug yesterday afternoon Mrs Ibbotsoii visited Atkinson, Nothing is definitely kno-.vn of what took place, but the woman was seen to lea va the house by some of th9 neighbours, who noticed that she was very unsteady in her gait. I A Pool of blood in the Kitchen. When Cocker returned home it WAS nøarly (Lnk, and he did not observe anything particular in the kitchen. Subsequently two young men went into the house and found a poolof blood in the kitchen, and upon more minute examination they dis- covered a. hatchet and a poker stained with blood, the hatchet having also human hair attached to it. Cocker became alarmed and passed the night at the home of a neighbour named Mrs Grayson. Atkinson did not return home, and yesterday :norning was seen by a man named John Hard- castie. He was then apparently quite well, but said he had slept in a field all night. Some two or three hours afterwards Atkinson was found by a farm labourer named Whiucup lying in Mr Ford's field with Ifl -:1""1 his I nroar Dacny liut, Upon his arrival the doctor stitched up the wound in Atkinson's throat, and it then tran- spired that on the previous night he had been called in to attend to Mrs Ibbotson, who had received several severe wounds on the head. From the appearance of the kitchen it is supposed that Atkinson and the woman had quarrelled, and that a struggle took place in the course of which he struck her on the head with the hatchet, J inflicting .serious injuries, notwithstanding which, however, she was able to walk home. As soon as Atkinson recovered consciousness and was able to speak he asked for writing materials, and wrote Rent t to pay. Been out all night. Last night he was progressing as favourably as possible.

The Bath Tragedy. A Man Gives Himself Up. STRANGE DELUSIONS. A man named John Eades, a blacksmith, of Twerton, was brought up before the Bath county magistrates on Saturday, supposed to be of unsound mind. He gave himself up as the Hamp- ton Down murderer on Friday to P. C. Webb at the police-station. He said he wanted to make a confession, and informed the constable that every one looked upon him as the murderer, but lie knew nothing about it. He further stated that he met a maD. at the bottom of Lansdown with two dogs, who shouted after him. He had no rest, and could not sleep in consequence. He felt as though he had a lump of lead in his head. He was not in the habit of taking too much beer, though two or three pints would make him in- oxicated. The Clerk You gave yourself up because you fancied you committed the murder ?—Yes, sir. The Chairman (Mr Foxcroft): Do you believe you committed the murder ?—No, sir. The Chairman But you are afraid that people think you did it 1—Ye?. P.C. Webb stated that the prisoner's father was not exactly right in his mind, and had been for some years detained in the lunatic ward at the workhouse. Eades begged witness to detain him, as he felt that he should commit suicide to escape from the people. Dr. Bloxam said he had that morning examined the man. He was perfectly right in every other point except that he fancied people suspected him of murder. Prisoner was a very sensitive man, and was suffering from delusions. Ho believed people would lynch him for the murder, and rather than they should do that he said he would do away with himself. Prisoner had on the previous day seen his club doctor, Mr Heygate, but did not tell him of his hallucina- tions. The magistrates decided to send prisoner to the workhouse for a fortnight, the chairman intimating that if it were found that he reqmred special treatment he would be sent to Wells.

HAYDN PARRY'S OPERA. The Fate of Miami." The Princess's Theatre(says theDaily Telegraph,) closed rather abruptly on Saturday evening. Mr Hollingshead, however, requests us to say that the house will remain closed only pending the production of a grand musical and spectacular piece, and that a new drama and a Christmas mediey, in which Mr Henry Dixey will appear, are also in I)rep.,ir,- tinii. Says the Horning The fate of Miami is stir- ring np strife in certain quarters. Mr Haydn I Parry maintains that a piece for which £ 2,000 was put down should have outlived a week's run, and Mr Sapte asserts that the Miami music was originally written for his libretto of Marigold Farm, a comic opera designed for production by Messr-i Parry and Hollingshead at the Princess's Theatre. The trouble is further complicated by the fact that Sapte alleges he has had an offer for the American rights of his opera. There is a smack of Midshipman Easy's triangular duel in a',I this

A BULL IN A CONVICT PRISON. i An Irishman on His Defence. Sheriff Brown has opened an inquiry in Peter- head Courthouse into the death of John Hanley, a convict, who was recently killed in the Stirling- hill Quarry by faHing off a ledge of rock. A man named Murphy, one of the convicts, said that when the stone gave way he said to himself, "I'm killed," and when he dropped he knew ho was kiHed. After thinking over it he found that only one leg had been bruised but Hanley was lying by his side spitting up blood, and he was dead in notin.e. He believed the debris killed him. At the close of this witness's examination he asked the sheriff for permission to say a few words. He said My lord, I am entirely innocent of the crime I committed and if I am guilty of the crime it is one of the smallest of thefts that ever a man committcd.-Tlw enquiry was adjourned.

CARDIFF WESTERN DISTRICT SEWER. At a meeting of Cardiff Corporation to-day, nnder the presidency of the mayor (Councillor Vaughan), Councillor R. Johnston proposed that if a satisfactory reply bo not received within a week from the Board of Trade as to the proposed sewer for the western district, powers be taken in the new Bill authorising the corporation to borrow £86,500 to carry out the work. —Councillor Evans seconded.—The Mayor, in supporting the proposi- tion, said the Bute Docks Company had not the civility to yrieet them face to face, but wrote a letter to the Government inspector objecting.- The motion WAS unanimously agreedN:o.

I MR H. M. STANLEY AND HIS AGENT. Settlement of the Action. On the case in which Mr Appleton, lecture agent, sued Mr Stanley, the explorer, for commis- sion on a course of lectures which were to be delivered before the Emin Relief Expedition started, being mentioned before Mr Justice Cave, to-day, Mr Wildey Wright, for the plaintiff, said the matter had been disposed of oiiteriiismutually fair to the parties interested.

BRISTOL MUSICAL FESTIVAL. This triennial festival was brought to a close en Saturday with a performance of The Messiuih, which secured the largest attendance of the week. The number of persons who attended it reached 1,879, which was only about 200 below the highest number ever recorded at a Bristol festival. The principals were Mme. Albani, Miss Hilda Wilson, Mr Edward Lloyd, Mr Santley, and Mr Montague Worlock.

WILL MR GLADSTONE RETIRE ? It is matter of common knowledge (says The Morning) in Mr Gladstone's household, and among his intimate friends, that he is anxious to retire from the House of Commons at the end of this Parliament.

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[ The Chicago Murder. LATEST PARTICULARS. Effect on the World's Fair. CIIICAGOJ Midnight. The residence ot the lata Mr Carter H. Harrison; the murdered mayor of this city, is thronged with sorrowing friends of the bereaved family; The streets in the neighbourhood are blocked Willi car- riages; and even the pavements are impassable. Telegrams conveying messages of sympathy and forma t resolutions of condolence ARE pouring in from all direction?, and editorial notices appear in alt the papers of the provincial cities, Fhe coroner's inquest Was held on the remains of the deceased to»daj% when the jury returned a Verdict holding the assassin Prender- gast for trial before a grand jury. The prisoner, wiio is still indifferent, persists in the sfcrtemen^ which lie has already made. A, ,t mark of respect for the memory of the late mayor an order haf been issued dispensing with all ceremonies on th< closing of the World's Fair except the adoption oi ) a public resolution expressive of regret at th» a public resotution exprL'ss .ve of regret at th* .?ddenremov?tofMrHMrison. The end of th« Fxirwiil simply be marked by the firing of ? salute and the lowering of the flag at sunset. Tributes of Respect. A Central News telegram from Chicago says: — The British Delegate at. the World's Fair yester- day made a suggestion that a meeting should be held of all tha foreign delegates now here, if order to express their sorrow and sympathy with the relatives of Mr Harrison, the mayor, who was assassinated on Saturday, It has been arranged that the funeral shall take place on Wednesda5 next, and it is certain that an enormous concourse wnl attend. The body is to lie in state at thf City Hall, and the citizens will have an opportu- nity of taking one last look at the remains. (Additional particulars on 4t1¡, page.)

She Behaved Like a Fury, A WIFE'S CRUELTY. REMARKABLE EVIDENCE. In the Divorce Division on Saturday—befoR Mr Justice Barnes—the case of Bruce v. Bruci was heard. It was the petition of the husband, < cattle salesman, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, for z judicial separation by reason of the cruelty of his wife. She denied the charge, but did not appear, and the case was undefended. Mr Priestley, who represented the petitioner, said that the marriage took place on the 6th October, 1835, at Newcastle. There were nc children. Up to 1887 they lived happily but at that period the respondent took to drinking, and fron: that time down to the present she had be. haved like a fury," if the evidence was true, rendering the petitioner's life most unhappy. It was probably the worst case of a wife's cruelty t( a husband that had ever come before the court. She Struck and Bit Him. The petitioner was called, and deposed as t( several acts of violence towards him on the pal"- of his wife. She had burnt a lot of his ties ant- told him she would set lire to the house. She hac threatened to murder him, and had struck hin and bit him. Mr Justice Barnes Was she a woman oi physical strength ^— Witness She was a very. tall, strong woman. Examination continued On Dec. 12th, 188a he cama home and found his wife in the usual state-" pretty well drunk." She used violeni language towards him, and with a walking-stick she smashed a large photograph. On Sept. 3rd, 1892, while he was in bed, she struck him witb her fist and threatened to murder him. He left the house that night, as he was afraid of her violence. When he returned the following daj she struck him severely with a poker. He pushed her down on the floor and held her to keep bev from striking him. Threw Ornaments at Him. She had thrown the ornaments at him, and once got hold of a big lustre and threw it. It smashed into a thousand pieces, and the glass was sticking all over his face, and he was covered in blood. IT caused three wounds on the face and the head, and a mark n ear the eye would never leave him. One of the wounds was two or three inches deelx He was laid up for nine days, and a doctoi attended him twice a day. Lator on she agair. struck him, and lie called in a Mr Ely to protect him, Ely getting between them to prevent the witness being struck. Mr Justice Barnes: What became of Mrt Bruce?— Witness: I was glad to get rid of her, so I allowed her L2 a week, which is more than I can afford, and sold up my house. She is noW living at South Shields. Found Glass in the Wounds. You are bound to support her. What is" YOUl, income?— £ 200 a year. Corroborative evidence of the cruelty was giveB by Dr. Dagne. who said that he was called in oe November 14, 1892, and found Mr Bruce suffer- ing from three wounds on the crown of his HEADJ one at the corner of the right eye, and some punc. tured wounds on the face and head. In most 01 the wounds there were fragments of glass, which he had to take out. He was in bed for nine dayT suffering from the injuries. His Lordship granted the petitioner a decree 01 judicial separation, with costs, and ordered hina to pay the respondent -Cl a week, it being usual in these cases for a husband to make his wife at. allowance.

DEATH OF COLONEL LLOYD, OF BRECON. Colonel Thomas Conway Lloyd, the command- ing officer of the Brcconshire Volunteers, died at his residence, Din as, near Brecon,yesterday after noon. The deceased was taken ill on Wednesday evening, and died at 2,30 p.m., death probably resulting from a recurrence of influenza. He was 65 years of age, and was a Justice of the Peace for the counties of Brecon. Hereford, and Monmouth, and Deputy Lord Lieutenant of the former county. He was Mayor of Brccon in 1879 and 1880, and High Sheriff of Breconshire in 1878 He also held the position of County Alderman, and Lord of the Manors of Penalt and Aberon- ney. HJ was educated at Christ] Church,Oxford, and joined the army in 1851 in the St. Helena Rfgiment as ensign. He was appointed Aide de Camp and Military Secretary to the Governor oi St. Helena, and afterwards volunteered for the Crimean War, but was refused. He, however, subsequently joined the 4th King's Own in front of Sebastopoi. He afterwards served in the 19th and 84th Regiments, and in 1865, as captain, lie sold out. In 1867 he joined the Breconshire Vol- unteers as Major, and in 1333 succeeded the late Colonel F. X. Gwynne in command of the regi- ment. During his command the uniform of the battalion was changed from grey to scarlet. Three new companies (including the mounted infantry) have been added, and the regiment has won the highest commendation at Aldershot and other brigade cncarnpmpnt". »

THE FINANCES OF TASMANIA. I HOBAIU, Sunday.—The Hon. Henry Dobsom the Premier, in addressing his constituents at Brighton, said that it had been decided to dissolve I Parliament before Christmas. The principle of' graduated taxation which the Legislative Council ) had rejected would be fought at the general t election. It was intended, proceeded Mr Dobson, I to raise the revenue from customs, probate, AND IJ wealth. The deficit this year would amount to I £ 73,000. He suggested the finding of the TOTAL I deficit of L400, 000, aad paying a portion of it 06 every year. —lieuter.

CARDIFF CORPORATION AND I THE GAS COMPANY. j At a special meeting of the Cardiff Corporatio* I to-day, the Mayo»- (Councillor Vaughan) presid' I ng, complaint was again made of the quality I the gas for public lighting, and it was state L ncidentally that the corporation could demand I only lamps equal to 16 candle power. I

ANOTHER BICYCLE RECORD, I A Central News telef{m from New Ycrk I dated Mnnday, ?ays—At Hertford, Con))ec?oH'' I on Saturday, the A nwr1Can champion bicyc!'?' II Z'mmfrm?nn, taking a flym? start, covered* k quarter of a mile in 25 seconds This beats ?' I previous records. I

r THE SILVER QUESTION IN I AMEBICA. l n ,11' II WASHINGTON, Monday.—Th" Repeal B!H i" t1 ,Sen,,tte will J)rob,-t'?i.v b,?, of to-Cl.,iv. I C. i?, geHeratiy expected that 'he majority m fa"" d JH the measure will be 10.—?<'t<??'. ?)

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