... WEEK ENDING MARCH 18th. Flower Garden.—Stir up all bare ground to be sown with annuals to let in the air. A deal of the success or failure in raising seedlings depends upon the condition of the soil at the time of sow- ing. Annuals ought not to be the weedy things they so often are, but the first step to success is the proper preparation of the soil. The next step is their sowing, and after ...

... THE LOW FLASH POINT. On Tuesday Mr Jesse Collings, Under- Secretary of State for the Home Department, received a deputation which Sir E. Hill, M.P., introduced from the Bristol, West of England, and South Wales Petroleum Association. After an opening statement from Mr Fox, Mr TuckeU (of Messra Hare and Co., Bristol) explained that their object was to obiect to the raising of the flash point ...

... At Caerphilly Police Court on Tuesday Tom PhillIps, solicitor. Pontypridd, applied (oØ behalf of Mr Lodwick John, milk vendor, of Senghenydd) for &ummons for wilful and corrupt perjury against Mr E. T. Morgan, sanitary inspector under the Caerphilly District Council* The alleged perjury was assigned to the evidence given two weeks ago by Mr Morgan at the Police Court, to the effect that he did ...

... Mr S. B. Williams, of the Temple Bar Inn, Bute-street, Cardiff, was due to appear at the Cardiff County Court on Wednesday in response to two judgment summonses, one issued by the National Cash Register Company, to whom he had been ordered to pay a month in liquida- tion of a debt of S,16, and another issued by Mr Matthews, land agent Llantwit, to whom he had been ordered to pay 13 a month in ...

... ARHOLIADAU GORSEDD Y BEIRDD. Y mae Cynideikhas yr Orsedd wedi trefnn bydd Arholiadau yr Orsedd am Urddau o hyfi allan yn cael en eynal mewn gwahanol fanau canolig yn sirosdd Cymru a rhai o brif drefi Lloegr, tua thri mis cyn yr adeg y cynhelit yr Eisteddfod Genedlaeth»l~ac nid, fel o r blaen, ar adeg yr Eisteddfod, yn y dref y oynelid yr Eisteddfod. Dynia bynciau yr arholi am y flwyddyn hon ...

... At inqueetwasbeld at the Town Hall, Newport, on Monday (before Mr Digby Powell, deputy- ( coroner) on the body of a man, apparently a sea. man, which was found in a decomposed state in the South Alexandra Dock on Saturday. There was no identification, although the dock police have made every endeavour by means of the Shipping Office to trace the case. A man, supposed to be a foreign seaman, ...

... The election of the Earl of Rosebery as the President of the Eighty Club may be taken as an indication that his Lordship will shortly be seen again taking an active part in the arena of politics. Lord Rosebery was at one time the hope of the Liberal party, but after a short Premier- ship he seemed very glad to resign office. That step did not, however, imply an absolute retirement, though of ...

... Statement in the Paris Chamber. ^Ionday.—In to-day's sitting of the ~T?r of Deputies, M. Louis Brunei addressed U»e jf0n 40 the Minister for Foreign Affairs on ^th -cat said that he had read satisfaction the semi-official Note published Out t?8 oa subject yesterday, and pointed &ttenH last August he called the Minister's Hjjj .On to the position of France at that place, to jJn tlle following ...

... The bestowal of the Victoria Cross upon Captain Hore-Rnthven comes just at the right moment, in view of further Egyptian compli- cations, and the fact that the hands of oar recruiting sergeants raq-aire strengthening. The act which has gained for this gallant officer the envied distinction hae seldom been. exceeded for heroic daring. An officer of an Egyptian batta- lion lay on the ground ...

... important Capture in London. The man Robert Graham, who was arrested with a ooofederato by the London police at a villa at Highgate on Saturday, it regarded by the Newport police as the of the gam* name who broke into Mr Ernest TMMsh h jvwelierv establishment, Comnaerenu street, Newport two years since, ami succeeded iu carryinj: off abont Graham w.»* shewn to have stayed in the town fcr ...

... Penner: He once seemed to be a promising youngpoet. What stopped Mr ?—Skribes: Baldness. ...

... ^5jkjcag°, Tuesday.—Delegates of over a hundred 53oei f^a Turner Literary Benefit aud Religious JjQOlvJ153' whose combined membership numbers met here lo-day. After speeches had been a committee was appointed to arrange for a meeting of German Americans to protest the alliance of the United States with Upland or any other Power. The speakers urged w/' Germany had been grossly misrepresented ic ...