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OUR CHESS COLUMN. Secretaries of clubs will oblige by forwarding tcores of matches and any games of interest. Local news and games will at all times have pre- cedence in publication. All communications for this department to br addressed W. Heitzman, 57, Taff-atraet, Ponty* pridd. No. 93.—Problem by F. G. TUCKEB, Bristol. BLACK (8 pieces). WHITE (13 pieces). White to play and mate in two moves. The scoretin the Irish correspondence match is -Dublin, 481 Belfast, 46t, and five games in progress. The Standard, whose chess editor is understood M' to be Mr. L. Hoffer, makes the following important announcement:— Chess players will be pleased to learn that a match between Dr. Tarrascb, of Nuremberg, and M. Tschigorin, of St. Petersburgb, has been arranged, and it is to be played under the auspices of the Berlin Chess Society. Dr. Tarrascb has signified his assent to the combat. and his willing to play either for love or 20,000 marks (Tschigorin's proposed stakes), and he is in communication with Tschigorin to settle the conditions. The Berlin Cbess Society have agreed « to pay Tschigorin's expenses, and the time is J fixed, preliminary, before the commencement of 1 the congress of the German Chess Association, j which is to be held on July 17. Dr. Tarrasch has 1 not yet encountered in single combat any leading master yet; but he has won two great Inter- national Tournaments, Breslau and Manchester, without losing a single game. GAMES. ■ ] After the conclusion of his match with M. Tschigorin, Mr. Steinitz accepted the heavy task of conducting three games simultaneously, blindfold, j against three of the strongest American first-class amateurs. The contest took place at the Brooklyn Club, the champion gaining two and losing one of the games. The names of the players are a guarantee of the difficult task Mr. Sreinitz had set himself. These are Messrs. Philip Richardson, A. E. Blackmar, and W. M. de Vieser. His loss was I with Mr. Blackmar. Played March 26,1892.. VIENNA OPENING. WHITE. BLACK. W. Steinitz. P. Richardson. 1 P to K 4 1 P to K 4 j 2 Q N to B 3 2 Q N to B 3 '-1 3 P to K B 4 3 11 to Q H 4 4PxP 4 B x N 5 R x B 5 N x K P 6 P to Q 4 6 N to N 3 •' 'm 7 B to K 3 7 P to Q 3 1 8 Q to B 3 8 K N to K 2 9 O o 900 10 P to K N 4 10 B to K 3 11 Q to K N 3 11 P to Q 4 12 P to K R 4 12 P to Q B 3 13 P to R 5 13 N to R1 14 PioRS 14 N (R) to N 3 15 R to R 1 15 P to B 3 16 P x N P 16 R to B 2 17 BtoQ3 17 RxP 18 R to R 5 18 P to Q N 4 7 19 Q R to R 1 19 Q to Q 2 20 Q to R 2 '/0 N to K B 21 P to N 5 21 P to K B 4 22 P to K 5 22 N (K2) to NI 23PtoKN4 23PtoQR4 24 R to R 6 24 R to Q R 2 25 N to N 3 25 R to K B 2 26 N to R 5 26 Q to K 2 27 N to B 6 ch 27 K to R 1 ,1 g 28 B to Q 2 28 P to Q N 5 29 Q to K R 3 29 P to Q B 4 30BxBP 30 R to K N 2 31 P x P 31 B x B 32QxB 32 QiKP 33 Q to Q 3 33 P to Q 5 34 Q to B 4 34 Q R to K B 2 35 R x P ch 35 R x R (?) 36 R x R ch 36 R x R 37 Q to N 8, mate Same contest, STEINITZ t. Da VISSEB. CBHTKE COONTBB GAMBIT. WHITE. BLACK. W. Steinitz. M. de Visser. 1 P to K 4 1 P to Q 4 2 P x P 2QxP 3 QN to B 3 3 Q toQIt 4 4KNtoB3 4KNtoB3 5 P to Q4 5 P to Q B 3 6 B to Q 3 6 B to N 5 700 7QNtoQ2 8 N to K 2 8 P to K 3 9 P to Q B 3 9 B to.Q 3 10 N to N 3 10 P to K R 4 11 R to K 1 11 P to R 5 12 Nto HI 12 QtoKR4 13 N to K 3 13 P to R 6 14 N x B 14 P x P 15 Q N to K 5 15 N to N5 16 BtoKB 4 16 Q NxN 17 N x N 17 B x N 18 R x B 18 N x R 19 B x N 19 Q to R 6 20 B to N 3 20 P to KB 4 21 Q to K 2 21 R to R 3 22 P to K B 4 22 R to Q 1 23 R to K 1 23 K to B 2. 24 QtoK5 24 RtoQ2 25 R to K2 25 Q to N 5 26 B to B 4 26 Q to B 6 27 B x P ch 27 K to B 1 28 Q to N 8 ch 28 K to K 2 29 B to B 4 ch 29 Q to K 5 30 R x Q ch 30 P x R 31 Q to K 5 ch 31 Resigns J

MURDER AND SUICIDE Quarrel between Two Misers. Just three months ago an aged couple residing in the neighbourhood of Rodez were uni ed in the bonds of wedlock. The man was 76, the wonum fivejyears his junior. Both were in easy circum- stances for their position in life, but from the wed- « ding day violent disputes were frequent between them. Husband and wife were inveterate misers, and neither cared to put down a sou to defray their household expenses. They kept their respec- tive boards quite separate, and fought over them from morning to night. Yesterday, the neighbours, having noticed that they bad not seen them for several days, broke open the door of their cottage, all attempts to obtain admission by other meant having proved ineffectual, and on entering found to their horror that the old couple were dead. The man was seated in an an arm-chair with a revolver and a small looking-glass in his rigid fingers, and it was found that his right temple had been pierced by a bullet. The corpse of the woman Jay on the bed, with the skult fractured, and with traces of a number of stabs on her face and breast. It was evident thatafter an unusually violent altercation, the husband had killed his wife and had then com- mitted suicide.

DREW THE LINE AT WHISKY. At Cardiff Police-court this morning (bafore Dr. Paine and Sir Morgan Morgan) John Cook, 40. seaman, while denying a charge of drunkennes.. in proving which the constable said the defendant smelt of whisky, admitted four glasses of beer, but was very emphatic in denying the charge, on the ground that he never took whisky.—Dr. Paine said it made no difference. A drunk was a drunk," whetber caused by whisky or anything else.—• Discharged with a caution.

CARDIFF FABIAN SOCIETY. gr* z%- At. a meeting held at the Hotel Mefropole on Thursday evening it was unanimously resolved t— That this meeting of the Cardiff Fabian Socialist Society desires to aceord its tb,nks to Messrs. 8. T, Evans, Lloyd tfeorge, D. A. Thomas, and Wyuford Phillips, M.P.'s, for tbe stand they are making for tlm assertion of their principles, and strongly commend their example to those who h ive a cause to adrocateiu the face of a hostile ami indifferent majority.

REMARKABLE BOMB EXPLOSION The village of Down Thomas, a few miles from Plymouth, was the scene of a remarkable accident on Thursday. Two lads named Carter and Budge, farm servants, were working in a wool chamber where was collected a large quantity of old metal. Amongst this, although unknown to anyone 00 the farm. was an unexploded shell, which Carter tried to break with a hammer. He had struck it several blows, when it suddenly exploded, oarrying away part of tbe window and inflicting terrihls injursea on the lad, as well as injuring the other boy, though less seriously, and alao deing oonsidcrible damage to the premises. Assistance was soon at hand and medical aid sent for, and Carter was at ouce removed to the South Devon Hospital at Plymouth, where he lies in a precarious condition.

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Business Addresses. lN[KW IIiUE £ ^YSliEM OR PIANOFORTES jrjHHOMrsON & ^HACKELL»1 JMITED. ——— E W JJ IKK g YST &M. ?$». FOR AMERICAN ORGANS^ ^,30. & GHACSBLT, J^IMITED NEW HIRE gYSTEJtt FOR HARMONIUMS flpBOMPSON & gHACHELL, J^IMITED. QUEEN'S BUILDINGS. CARDIFF. iOco at SWANSEA, NEWPORT, MERTHYR GLOUCESTER, PONTYPRIDD, t AND PENARTH. f AtrgeiO ana best Stock out of London to ietoot from iU Instruments warranted and exchanged it not approved. IY^YFC»¥fnffilQ Monthly, ow HBW HKBB SKIXIM. C *hB.-Ne* Catalogue with Photographs and tally de tailed naxticuUrs, tent pom- ØEE on application. ■;Y" TURING- nOM 3/6. JESSE WILLIAMS 6 Will send a £ jj_OOD rjlRUSS Post free—SINGLE (right to Any Address in Grant Like the drawing. PARK-HAL L BUILDINGS, Britain. Like the drawing. PARK-HAL L BUILDINGS, f Telephone No. 653. WORTH A GUINEA A BOX. 1 U>E EC HAM'S pILLS, For all "glJLIOUS AND N ERVOU S j DISORDERS, *$) Such as SICK HEADACHE, WEAK STOMACH, IMPAIRED DIGESTION, CONSTIPATION, LIVER COMPLAINT, And FEMALE AILMENTS. LABGSST SALE in THE WOBLD. In^Boxes, Qid., 13td. and 2s. 9d. each. i* — JJEECHAM'S TOOTH JJASTE EFFICACIOUS. ECONOMICAL, "CLEANSES THE TEETH, PERFUMES THE BREATH. c.> IntCollapsible Tubes, One ShiiHag etch. 2345 It J. HEATH AND SONS Having increased their Show-room*, now place before the pubUc a perfect display of all kinds of Musical Instruments. iplANOS, QRGANS, HARPS, ByslI the Leading Makers, both new and second-hand, at the lowest possible prices. p I A N O S ft ST BBOADWOOD, COLLARD, BRINSMEAD, Mt ERARD, KIRKMAN, STEIN WAY, j SCHIEDMAYER, &c. FROM 108. MONTHLY. IgOLE AGENTS FOR MASON AND HAMLIN ORGANS. BELL, SMITH, KARN, D'OHERTY. See., ORGANS Always in Stock in great variety, FROM 7s. MONTHLY, at RT HEATH AND SONS. JEJL U fil, QUEEN-STREET, J ) } CARDIFF. 9, NORTH-ROAD, J 34, TAFF-STREET, I'ONTYPRIDD. MANUFACTORY SPEEL.GROVE PIANOFORTE WORKS, CAMBRIDGE-ROAD, LONDON. TUNERS VUlT ALL PARTS OF SOUTH WALES. Catalogues Post-free on Application. OPBCIAL TBRMS TO TEACHERS, SCHOOLS. AND PLACES OF WORSHIP. ———— Canvassers Wanted in Districts where not yet Repre- i tented. Liberal Terms. jQYERS AND QLEANEES OF HATS, BONNETS, OSTRICH FEATHERS LADIES DRESS, AND GENTS' CLOTHING. ORe II A R D'S. 36, ADAM-STREET, CARDIFF. IHats or Bonnets Altered or Re-made. Leghorn Hats Cleaned or Dyed, and made as New or More Fashionable Shapes. [E2386

SOUTH WALES TIDE TABLE M Jo1 a I I5 lit TlhfTi S a s 3 j: 5 4 I S | (Morning. 7 3!) I 6 3> 7 25 6 44 6 48 £ ™ay9y; Evening 7 58 8 56 | 7 60 7 7 6 (Height 36 1l|3.S 0(35 1 36 I 25 10 Satur- ( Morning. 8 21 7~i9 i 8 13 7 31 7 31 day 1 Evening 8 43 I 7 42 J 8 38 7 64 7 61 Slay 28! Height 36 3 32 4 13S 9 34 5 25 3 Surul*r~ (Morning. 9 6 I 41 8M 8 17 8 19 Sr« fcll EwniOK 9 28 8 27 9 21 8 41 8 36 mmy (Height 34 5 30 10134 lx 33 5 23 6 •Mordar Morning. 9 49 8"501 9 44 9 5| 9 5 5! j £ < Bvaning. 10 10 9 13 10 7 9 29 9 21 mmj Heis,ht 32 4 29 1 32 10 32 4 121 9 L ( Morning. 10 6a 9 H 10 3f 9 53 9 S3 « 15 & '0 11 ^0 &'■> 10 17 10 9 1? j Height 30 8 27 6 30 6 31 6 20 0 WwUieef Morning. 11 19 10 25 11 19 I10 41 day, V Evening. 1 U <2 10 51 11 45 11 4 — June 1 (Height | 27 9 25 '0 18 3 1 30 • Tinir»- I Moreing. II 21 — | 11 23 1 •iav. < Jivacing 12 10 11 52 12 15 11 54 | — June 2 ^H«igtit 26 3 24 6 26 9 29 1 | 'Boafch Basin fiäïtDOck Sill. Alexandra Bock. VDock Sill.

TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. XKMPBHATtTBK. I J Date. Max. j Mini Mean. RAWFAXJ» Jb9aiar*ay .J 2\ 56 27 41 5 0*00 A» «oni*y 22 67 49 68 0 0-C7 fif 9I«aday. 23 67 49 58*0 (M» K *wtf« 24 66 j 46 56-0 0 00 W WednOiujr. 26 67 j 42 54-5 9-05 #' 28 70 37 '3-5 3-0S j[r*Aay 27 66 45 55-o 0-24 rhe 'P'lAMrature repi'rwenta axirems reaiiingj"cTthe tfcermo'Mter tar 24 hours ended9a.m.. taken ir, the! fbade at Tredeleroh. near Cardiff. i The Rainfall registered at TredelercU. near Caidiff, I flu the^>«Rrs ici!(i»« *».-vi.

Business Addresses. < 1,J I t. pIGS ARE VERY SCARCE AND DEAR, s r and, as a oonsequenoe, gACON OF SUITABLE SIZE FOB THE CARDIFF MARKET IS DIFFICULT TO GET. rv '( ot' H OPIUNSO jyjATURED pARMHOUSE JgACON AT 7td..PER POUND, a at once the CHEAPEST and BEST GOODS now offering. Eleven Hundred Sides Resody for Delivery, PRICE 7 ide PER POIJNa i .a o! I gOPKINS, < JJ AYES — Tlf A RIET 10406 1V1 I ",¡;{. rjpRAPNELL AND G ANE 88 AND 41, QUEEN-STREE1, COTTAGE pURNlTURE, Q.OOD, SOUND, QHEAP. .1; gPECIAL gHOW ROOMS, NOT t, SURPASSED í IN THE pROVINOES. '1; JL JMMENSE gTOCK COTTAGE F URNITURB. QOMPARE pRICES. rjlRAPNELL AND G ANE, MANUFACTURERS OF SUBSTANTIAL FURNITURE, 38 AND QUEEN-STREET CARDIFF. ALSO AT SS, 39, and 40, COLLBGE-ORBXIT. BRISTOL. AlII) 161 and 162, COMMERCIAL-SIRBST. NEWPORT, ESTIMATES FREE. CATALOGUES FREII. ALL GOODS CARRIAGE PAID TO ANY RAILWAY STATION IN THE KINGDOM. I

THEFT OF A SKIRT. I At Cardiff Police-court this morning (before Mr. Rees Jones and Dr. Paine) Lily M. Sebastian was charged with stealing a skirt, value lOil., froD) 91, Bute-Rarest, the property of Sarah Auu Flight, on the 23rd inst.—Mrs. Flight said that prisoner had been in her employ for a few days, but bad left her on the 23td. She then missed the akirt.- Police-constablu Dredge (24) stated that on the 23rd instant he arrested the prisoner in Bute- street.-Prisoner said that she bad taken the dress, but intended to have taken it back the same day.—Prisoner was fined 10s. and costs or seven days.

THEFT FROM A WASH TUB. At Cardiff Police-court this morning (before Mr. Rees Jones and Dr. Paine) Cathenoe McCarthy was charged with stealing a pair of trousers and chemises, value 7. from 3, Roseinary-atreet, the property of Bridget Ourtin, on the 19th inlt.- Prosecutor said that on the day in question the clothes were in a tub of water at the buck of her house, from which place the prisoner, who was in the habit of going to her back frequently, took them.—The prisoner pleaded guilty, but the magistrates, hearing that there was nothing else against her, dismissed the case.

ADVICK TO MOTHERS."—Are you broken in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting te<'th ? Go at ouce to a chemist, and get a bottle of Mas. WiMLOWs SOOTHING SYKtiP. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It Is per- fectly harmless; it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, acd the iittie cherub awakes as bright as a button." Of ail [cheaiiit* E1797

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TOWN TALK. (By U QUI VIVE.) CARDIFF. FfiiDAT. The Coming Struggle. "Well, how do you think things are shaping ?" What do you mean ?" Well, what are the chances P* Whose chances ?" « Dear me! Well, to put it plainly, what are the chances of John Gunn being returned for Cardiff?" "Oh, from what I hear, distinctly favourable Every day brings forth fresh evidence of support hitherto quite unexpected. Even in the wards that have always been regarded as distinctly Gladstonian a marked revulsion of feeling has taken place in favour of the Unionist candidate." How do you account for this ?" I cannot account for it. except upon one hypothesis, and that is that the industrial and wage-earning classes have had time to pause and inquire whether Home Rule for Ireland is the pivot upon which their future prospects are to turn. Results will show." Infirmary Festival. "Quite a large meeting at the Angel on Thursday, I believe ?" "Yes. Between thirty and forty attended." I see Mr. Ingledew is again. in the chair." "Yes; and a jolly good chairman he is, too. I don't think his last year's services will be soon forgotten, and if every one of the appointed com- mittee exhibit anything like the interest and enthusiasm Mr. Ingledew does there need not be much fear as to the success of the festival." Tramway Service at Cardiff. "I thought the Cardiff 'Bus Company was estab- lished in the interests of working men." That was also my impression. Why do you make the remark ?" The 'bus company have taken the workmen's 'busses off the Cathays route; and if it had not beau for the action of Mr. Goodyer the workmen from that part of the town who work at the DoØrs would have had to do the journey on foot." What has Mr. Goodyer done ?" M Ob, when he found the 'bus company were not running tbe early 'busses lie put on additional Lrams, and thereby saved very considerable incon- venience." There is no denbt the street passenger traffic of Cardiff has greatly improved during the iast twelvemonths. • The Organisation of Free Labour. — "The organisation of free labour appears to be perfect in Cardiff." What makes you think so ?" On Wednesday evening at five o'clock a telegram was received by Mr. W. R Hawkins, assistant secretary to the Ship-. ping Federation at Ctirdift, to the effect that the dockers who were discharging the Romola of linseed at Bristol had struck because two of the men employed to cut the ties' of the bags were non-unionist. A free labour agent was commu- I nit:ated with, and at six o'clock yesterday morning ¡ fOrUmeo were ready to^proceed to Bristol -*»<l take on the work which the dockers bad refused., Did they go ?" No free labour was obtained in Bristol." The Cardiff men bad to be paid, of course ?" Certainly." Wliat fools the dockers are to strike over such trifles. They are in an impecunious state, and if the executive sanctioned a strike they could not pay the men who came out. At Swansea the executive refused strike pay because their sanc- tion had not been obtained before thg men came out, and if it had been given the funds would not allow of the men being paid even 10s. a-week." The dockers are as badly oft as the seamen, I suppose." Or worse-probably worse." The organisation of free labour is undoubtedly playing havoc with unionists, who endeavour to keep all the work in their own bands. When the trade unionist goes out the free labourer steps into his place." And the only way to stop that state of things is for trade unionists to act with discretion, and prove to their fellow men that unionism is a good thing." Welsh Place Names. "Several stories have been told lately of the Saxon's attempts to pronounce Welsh names, but I think I think I have as good a one as any, and it has the merit of being true." "Let's have it." A Shields man, a friend of mine, came down to Cardiff some months ago, and told me he wanted to go to a place a couple of miles or so out of the town, but he could not remember the name. As there are many villages within two or three miles of the town it was not an easy matter to assist him. I mentioned Rumney, St. Mellon's, Whitchurcb, Radyr, Leckwitb, Llandough, and several others, without dropping upon the right one. 'No, it's not one of those you have named,' said my friend, but, perhaps, I can give you a cue. It is some- thing like Pull-your-breeches." For a long time I was as much in the dark as ever, and it was only after a brown study of about ten minutes that I struck upon 'Pwllypant.' 'That's it,' said my friend, delightedly I knew there was some reference to a nether garment in the word.' Beat that if you can." "I should say it will take a lot of beating." Barry Stock. -14 Is there anything in the rumour that Barry Stock is to be converted through the agency of a trust ?" "Not the slightest. It is simply an old sugges- tion revived. If the ordinary is to be divided'in any way, you may depend upon it that it will be done by the company and not by a trust. There is a stock conversion trust in existence, but it will not take anything under a million, and Barry ordinary is only JE996,000 at present." I believe there is something in the back- ground. There has been a good deal of knowing' buying lately." "I don't think there is anything in the back ground. The knowing ones are buying because they know that if the dividend is to be 10 per cent. (which is probable) the stock will go up. The disappointment of the last dividend and the new issue sent the stock down below its value." *# National Bank of Wales. The National Bank oi Wales shares are going up." "Yes, buyers at 17i yesterday. I hear a tip has gone round to buy." "Anything new coming dut P" I fancy there is something; in fact, I feel pretty sure there is, but I don't know what." What the National Bank of Wales ought to do is to amalgamate, if possible, with the North and South Wales Bank, and then it could cover the whole of the Principality. It would be in reality the National Bank of Wales." The North and South Wales is a good bank, isn't it ?' Oh, yes; a strong bank. The JE40 shares (£10 paid) stand 33 in the market, and a steady 15 per cent. has been paid for six years."

DAY BY DAY. e » Alderman Daniel Lewis, of Cardiff, is recupera- ting at Eastbourne. Mr. Evan Lewis, the couaty councillor for the Gellyfaelog Division of Dowlais, is spoken of as the Member for JiIlifaloig" by those unacquainted with the language of Eden. A contemporary says that Mr. S. T. Evans has brought into the House of Commons a bright and breezy impudence, and Mr. Lloyd George a pleasant, well-dressed personality. Professor Henry Jones relates a story of how Professor Caird, of the Glasgow University, in an hour's lecture constantly referred to ball and aody" instead of "soul and body." A deacon of one of the most flourishing chapels at Carmarthen was yesterday an interested spectator of the laying of the foundation stone of a new church near Bronwydd. 1 Having finished his inquiry on rural labour in the Vale of Glamorgan, Mr. Lleufer Thomas sent in his report to the Labour Commission, and is now busy collecting evidence in Pembrokeshire. Our par about fast travelling on a. Welsh line reminds a correspondent of that other railway where a train was actually pulled up for a lengthy interval in order that its driver, &c., might enjoy a gadle of quoits with the officials at a wayside station. This, too, was in Wales. A schoolmistress in a Glamorgan colliery town met a woman carrying a baby in her shawl. "Who's baby?" inquired the mistress.' "The Queen's baby, ma'am," was the reply, and the questioner was too frightened to speak. It trans- pired that the baby was the cbild of the landlady oi the Queen's Hotel. The funniest feature of the contest in South Monmouthsbire is the airy grace with which the baron and his supporters talk about winning the seat. Last time the majority was 2,950. This time that figure is more likely to be doubled than diminished. The Welsh Fourth Party figured ia the London Echo portrait gallery last night. Mr. S. T. Evans is given as the leader, Mr. Lloyd-George as the body, and Mr. D. A. Thomas as the rump. Mr. Thomas, says the writer, is not suspected of the cunning of fence possessed and fostered by his colleagues. An habituS at Swansea Police-court is not at all surprised that the stipendiary (Mr. J. Coke Fowler) should speak Welsh in the police-court. Be has done so frequently for years past. French, German, and pretty well all modern languages are all alike to Mr. Fowler, who can converse with Baron Profumo in the latter's native tongue. Lady Windsor has been able (says our London correspondent) to secure the galleries of the Royal i Institute of Painters in Water-colours for her reception, to follow the annual dinner of the National Union on June 15. The institute galleries are admirably suited for the purpose. being both spacious and lofty. Mr. F. W. D. Davis, son of Mr. W. Davip, of Brynheulog, Neath, has just won a Brown scholar- ship at the Yorkshire Ccollege branch of the Victoria University. Mr. Davis, who is an old pupil of the old Neath Proprietary School, is one of the most promising of the engineering students of the Yorkshire College. The main feature of our contemporary's political portrait of South Monmouthshire was that it was all background, 'fbe central figure was only pro- minent because it was altogether absent. Baron Profumo had better devote his energies to convince his friends that the Provident Association is a philanthropic institution, and fit to be used as a political testimonial. Iln making a post-mortem examination of the body of Hopkin Isaacs, tbe victim of the Treforest fl:=,:=== manslaughter case, Dr. Hunter and Dr. Jenkins, of Pontypridd, found that the skull on the left side of the brain was only half as thick as on the right side, "and," said Dr. Hunter in giving his evidence at the inquest, "had the stone struck the deceased on the right side of the head, it is probable that the injury would not have proved fatal." Mr. F. S. Lock, the well-known Cardiff buildqr, was 62 years of age yesterday. In honour of the event be entertained a party at the Angel Hotel, his fellow trippers on the recent Continental tour being largely in evidence. So delightful was the event found that it was decided to celebrate in the same way the birthdays of each member of the company. As it was found, however, that the dates ran awkwardly, Mr. J. P. Jones was autho- rised to fix the birthdays anew. The new missionary to the prisoners at the Cardiff Police-court (4,245 of ttysm appeared in the dock last year) will be Mr. W. G. Cadby, who has been selected out of 25 applicants. Mr. Cadby is a London cabman who has been an active worker in philanthropic effort in the Metropolis. He will enter upon his new duties early in June. The hon. sec. to the Cardiff Mission is Mr. Fred W. Brett, who reports that at least JE150 per annum is necessary to carry on the work successfully. We have been asked to substantiate our allega- tion that Maggie Murphy's bome" is a shebeen We base our contention on internal evidence in the song itself. The following will suffice:—" On Sunday night it's my delight and pleasure, don't you see," and so on, and the song finishes up with You're welcome every evening [meaning Sunday evening] at Maggie Murphy's Home." When special invitations are issued to all the boys and alljtbe girls for Sunday nights there is only one inference. I A London paper says that the Welsh members compare more than favourably with their Irish national contemporaries. Their manners are better, and their wardrobe worth more in the market of Shadrach than the entire apparel of the 86 champions of Milesian gallantry. And, adds our contemporary (the London Echo), it is even a nice point of discussion, to the advantage of Wales, if Mr. Samuel Evans is not altogether a more finished and versatile speaker than Mr. Thomas Sexton and Mr. Thomas Ellis potentially more terrible in his anger than either Mr. William Redmond or Mr. William O'Brien him- self. A romantic wedding took place yesterday at Salem Chapel, Maesteg, the contracting parties being the Rev. G. M. Howells and Mrs. M. Thomas both of Pontypridd. Mr. Howells, it will be remembered, was one of the severest sufferers from the recent collision at Pontypridd Railway Station, one of his legs having to be amputated above the knee. Mrs. M. Thomas (then a widow) acted as nurse at the workhouse infirmary, where the unfortunate man had to be treated, there being no public hospital at Pontypridd. Mrs. Thomas proved a ministering angel to the invalid, and an attachment sprang up between them. The Rev. G. M. Howells was recently ordained pastor of the chapel in which the marriage ceremony took place. Mr. Coke Fowler is not the only" alien" who speaks Welsh. Not long ago Mr. Bircham, the Local Government Board Inspector for Wales, held a public inquiry at Maesteg. A local guardikn, strong on Welsh questions, suggested that a. collier who was giving evidence should speak in his native language. "There," said Mr. Bircham, "vou have started the hare, and we shall be all day bunting it." Commissioner Bircham insisted upon having the evidence in English until there was a breakdown. You have spoken so well in English," he said to another witness, "that by way of comparison I'll have a go in Welsh." And he launched forth in the euphonious language of Adam Jones of Eden, and did it so well that the local guardian hasAver since held Mr. Bircham up as an authority on Welsh matters. Railway officials can be very accommodating- when they like. On Wednesday morning Carmar- then Station was the centre of much activity. consequent on the departure of several gentlemen who, on the previous day, took part in the pro- ceedings of the South Wales Liberal Federation. One train—it was a London and North Western train—was steaming out of the station, when a station official of the company exhibited signs of great agitation. His uneasines", it was afterwards discovered, was due to the appearance of Major Jones. Thinking that that important personage wished to go by the departing train, the official straightway called upon the driver to stop. The train was reversed, and Major Jones quietly walked up to a compartment. "Good-bye," said he to a friend, and, turning on his heels, he left tbe station, to the great chagrin of the official aforesaid.

THE LORD MAYOR IN WALES. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE RECEP- TION AT BRIDGEND. The committee of the Bridgend Eisteddfod have drawn out a plan of the manner in which they intend welcoming the Welsh Lord Mayor on the eisteddfod day, July 4. The Volunteers. benefit societies, and tradesmen will escort him from the railway station to the pavilion a luncheon will be served at the Town-hall about mid-day, and school children will be placed in rank and file in the square in front of the hall, where they will sing some appropriate selections of music. It is also proposed to decorate the town.

THE SMALL-POX OUTBREAK, PRECAUTIONARY ACTION OF THE CRlCKHO WELL AUTHORITY. The Crickhowell Rural Sanitary Authority, not sharing the flippant optimism of the Pembroke r Dock authorities respecting the nature and conse- quences of smlill-pox, have. upon the recommen- dation of Mr. Philip E. Hill, their medical officer of health, this week issued a public caution to the inhabitants of their district, calling the attention of the public to "the lact that the country is at present threatened with an epidemic of small-pox," and strongly recommending that "all persons who are past childhood, on whom re- vaccination has not. been successfully performed, should get themselves re-vaccinated without delay.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. BURY ST. EDMUNDS. Major J. E. Jameson will be the Gladstonian candidate for Bury St. Edmunds.

GRAND OPERA AT CARDIFF. [BT ZETUS," I Mozart's "I Le Nozze de Figaro attracted a select and delighted audience to the Grand Theatre, Cardiff, on Thursday evening. Miss Joy Maclean, a new Scottish soprano, made a graceful Countess Almavia, and sang with refreshing purity and freedom from the prevailing vice of (rilling. Mr. T. H. Wood, as the Count, aave evidence of special vocal ability. The Susanna of Miss Laure Lyon was always entertaining as the affianced of Figaro (Mr. K. Campbell). A certain stiffness in the acting uoticeable early'in the week is wearing off, and the company may anti- cipate increasing success. To-night (Friday) Rossini's "Barber of Seville" will be given, in hooour of the centenary of the composer. It will be unwise to allow the opportunity to pass of witnessing the revival of so historic a work.

SCARLET FEVER IN THE LLANELLY DISTRICT. At the monthly meeting of the Llanelly Rural Sanitary Authority held at the Union Workhouse on Thursday Dr. Evan Evans. the medical officer of health for the rural district, reported tbat during the past month 43 fresh cases of scarlatina were reported. Of tuese only one proved fatal. The districts affected are Burry Port, Felinfoel, Dafen, Loughor, and Llwynhendy. At each of these places the disease spread considerably. At Felinfoet fifteen fresh cases were reported in the prist month. Dr. Evans attributed the prolonged existence of the epidemic to the careless manner in which many of the children were nursed. Frequent house to house visitations have been instituted in the various localities where scarlatina is raging, and Dr. Evans baa requested the sani- tary inspector to exorcise increased vigilance to prevent children from infected bouses attend- ing the day school*

Cardiff Councillnrs at To-Morrow Night's National Banquet. (1.)—It is expected that Councillor Brain will give his usual lecture on Temperance." (2.)-And Alderman Carey may oblige with his celebrated" Irish Jig." (3.)—Councillor Jenkins, for this one night only, will not appear as a labour represen- tative. (4.)-Our worthy mayor, feeling quite satisfied after a good dinner, may be induced to propose u The Church of England." (õ).-Councillor Vaughan is quite willing to recite ",My Adventures in the Australian Bush." (6.)—Alderman Sande^tpossibly will oblige with his new rendering of Ta-ra-ra-Boom- de-ay." (7).—And Councillor Ebenezer, if called upon, will conclude the proceedings with "Auld Lang Syne."

Club and Society Gossip. MADAMK SCHUMANN. Madame Schumann, whom Haas Buiow called "the uncrowned queen of pianists," on Tuesday celebrated her 73rd birthday, being, therefore, exactly the same age as her Majesty. The an- nouncement that she has decided to retire into private life is not surprising under the circum- stances. FAMOUS ROOMS. By order of the German Emperor there has just been placed in one of the cabins of his ynfeht a plate recording the fact that "Marshal von Moltke lived here from the 3id to the 10th September, 1890." This reminds us that at Lord Carrington's mansion at Wycombe there is a room over which is recorded the fact that three Prime Ministers have slept therein, viz., William Pitt, Lord Beaconsfield, and Mr. Gladstone. ARQH-FFIOLOGT. The career as Greek lecturer which Miss Maria Millington Lathbury began last autumn after leaving Somerville Hall was not destined to be of long duration. After a few months of very suc- cessfullect,uring Miss Lathbury went to Greece, where for ten weeks she ambled among the ruins dear to the heart of the archaeologist, and thence she has just returned engaged to be married to Mr. John Evan?, of Nash Mills, Hertfordshire, whose name is well known in archaeological circles. A HANDSOME ROYAL COOFLK. King Christian L of Denmark, whose golden wedding is being celebrated to-day all over the North, is a well-preserved, handsome man of 74. It is from the Queen of Denmark that her three daughters-ttio Princess of Wales, the Empress of Russia, and the Duchess of Cumberland-derive their beauty and their perennial youth. Queen Marie, at the age of three score years and ten, is still a very handsome woman, with flashing eyes and lively manners, which cause her to look at least fifteen Tears younger than her actual age. **• "FEDORA." Mrs. Bernard Baere is achieving a great success in Melbourne. Her last new piece was Fedora," which she produced on Easter Monday before a crowded house. Mrs. Bernard Beere's actings evoked great applause in the first and second acts, but the subsequent portion of the drama was ruined by two of the male members of the com- pany forgetting their parts. The third act was got through with difficulty, out the curtain had to be dropped before the conclusion of the fourth apt, Mrs. Bernard Beere coming to the front and saying, "I cannot go,on with the piece; with so words and no cues it is impossible to go on." # THE SOCIETY ARTIST. Mr. George du Maurier, the social pictorial satirist of Punch, confided to a large audience at the Pcjnce's-hall the other night that he was origi- nally intended to be a man of science. To that end be was placed at University College, but Dr. Williamson, under whom he was a student, bad told him only recently that he was then charac- terised for the promise be gave of being a very bad chemist, and a very good caricaturist. The doctor, indeed, confessed that be and other grave and reverend seigneurs had been hugely tickled by his (the lecturer's) caricatures of them. They had not seen all the drawings, however. (Laughter.) It was nowadays bis task to pick out the graceful and elegant in life, though be found that his raw mate- rial required more cooking before it could be servea to the public than would be imagined. 80 much so was that the case that those present would hardly recognise some of that cooked material as being that originally culled from the social garden.

AN EXTRAORDINARY CARPET. At the galleries of Messrs. Vincent Robinson and Co., of Wigmore-street, London, there will be on view in the afternoons of the next few days what (says the Times) may probably, without any exaggeration, be called the finest Persian carpet in the world. This is the Holy Carpet of the Mosque of Ardebil, in Persia; a carpet which for size, beauty, condition, and authenticated age is entirely unrivalled by any known example. To quote the description given by Mr. E. Stabbing, tbe managing director of tbe firm, and a well- known authority on these matters, Tbe dimen- sions of the earpet are 34ft. Sin. by 17ft. Sin. The ground of the body of the fabric is of a rich blue, covered with a Aoral tracery of exquisite delicacy and freedom of treatment. A centre I medallion of pale yellow terminates on its outer edge in sixteen minaret-shaped points, from which spring sixteen cartouches, four green, four red, and eight cream and from two of these again are, as it were, suspended and banging in the direc- tion of the respective ends of the carpet two of the sacred lamps of tbe mosque." But the most extraordinary detail of all ia the pale cream car- touche placed within the border at the top end of' the carpet, bearing its inwoven inscrip- tion, which is thus translated:—" I have no refuge in the world other than thy threshold. My head has no pro- tection other than thy porebway. The work of the slave of this Holy Place, Maksoud of Kashan, in the year 942." Now. 942 of the Hegira is 1535 of our era; so that the carpet was actually in existence, in the mosque of the sacred city of the Suffavian Dynasty, at the time when Queen Elizabeth sent Anthony Jenkinson on an embassy I to Shah Tamasp. It need not be said that camets thus signed and dated are extremely rare and are historically important as forming the points de repere for the students of Oriental art. But a l carpet not only dated and signed, but of such size and beauty as this, is literally « thing UP.. beard of.

HEAD-CONSTABLESHIP OF WORCESTER., A Cardiff Applicant. A special meeting of the Cardiff Watch Com- mittee was held in the council chamber of the 'I own-hall this morning, the mayor presiding, to consider a communication from Inspector A. Pike, of the borough police. The inspector wrote requesting permission to become a candidate for the post of head-constable of Worcester, which is now vacant, and also asked the committee to grant him a testimonial, pointing out that he had had seventeen years experience in the police force. eleven of which he had spent at Cardiff.-The committee decided to accede to both requests.

A FAMOUS ELEPHANT HUNTER. Mr. G. P. Sanderson, whose death was announced on Thursday morning, was tbe most successful elephant hunter in India. When wild elephants became very numerous in Mysore it was decided that an effort should be made to reduce them by capture. The first attempt was at Mr. Sander- son's suggestion and under his superinten- dence in 1874, and 55 were captured in one drive. Mr. Sanderson was subsequently transferred to Bengal as Superintendent of Keddae-that is, elephant traps to the Government, and after eleven years again re- turned to Mvsore. When the Duke of Clarence visited India Mr. Sanderson was selected to get up an elephant "drive" for his Royal Highness's amusement, and some 37 of the huge animals were ,captured. Among the Prince's party on that occasion was Sir Edward Bradford, the present chief of the Metropolitan Police. Mr. Sanderson, who was the author of a book entitled Twelve Years Among the Wild Beasts of India," con- tributed a chapter on elephant-catching to Mr. J. D. Rees's volume "The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India."

A Wonderful Train. The new train for the use of the Imperial Russian family consists of fourteen carriages. The saloon is divided into two and upholstered in red lIilk. The dining-room is in carved oak. The Empress's bedroom is in turquoise blue silk, and the bed is slung ltammock-wise, in order to obviate, shaking. The ornamentation is in mosaic of pre- cious woods. It is all very splendid doubtless, but the German Emperor has beaten his Russian brother in the matter of luxurious Imperial trains. The reception-saloon, with groups of statuary, does not appear in the catalogue of effects in the Czar's train.

The Feather Bonnet. The feather bonnet, without which no Highland military uniform is supposed to be correct, will shortly be worn by the Argyll and Southerland Highlanders, Major Hannay, a 93rd officer, being just now very busy supervising the preparation ot this ornamental headgear for the regiment. There is a popular impression that these bonnets are heavy, and it is cot uncommon to hear a soldier the subject of commiseration on a hot field-day. They are, however, on the contrary, exceptionally comfortable) to weari being made of a very light material.

A Great Concession. Mr. Henniker Heaton has received an intimation that he has triumphed in his contention with the Post-office that downstairs" as well as up- stairs" should be telegraphed one word. Hitherto upstairs" has been counted one word, and down- stairs" two. Mr. Heaton received the intelligence in an official letter of four pages, which wound up with the declaration that the sum of one penny wouldbe returned to him.

An Epidemic of Pretty Girls. The Figaro says 1892 will be famous in the years to come for the enormous number of pretty girls to be seen. There is said to be a regular epidemic of them, and whether it is that the dresses of the present time are particularly becoming, it is cetv tain that a stroll in the park does reveal a great number of fresh and winning countenances.

Baseball. GBAKSBTOWN v. CARDIFFo The following players will represent the home team at Grange- town to-morrow (SaturdllY) :-A. Maplestone (Captain), P. Byan, G. Davidson, L. Lewis, T. Mabbs, J. Lewis. R. Coombe, O. Price, F. Davies, J. Spevin, and S. Taylor. Reserves, J. Williams and J. Lomas.