The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1881-02-12 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN WALES.  A crime surrounded by several revolting details is agitating the little town of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. On Wednesday afternoon a lad, 11 years old, Yi4s missed from home, and a search for him proved Teifectual till Friday morning, when his body was ?tiscovered face downwards beneath a garden hedge !ri the town. The skull was open, and quite clean 'nsicle, all the brains being missing; the left cheek Igid eye were cut away, and aro also missing. itihe corpse was covered with loose weeds, giving L°e place an appearance uniform with the other Part of the garden. The absence of blood traces Prove that the murder could not have been committed where the body was found. When last seen alive the deceased was playing in this garden with lads of the same age, who live in the house adJoining, with their mother, a married woman, and the whole three are now in custody charged with the to, lirder. When missed deceased was known to have ,403. in his possession, and this sum, it is alleged, wie lads accused of the crime spent in Kidwelly.  Punts are now being ,used at some parts of Windsor nrid Eton.  Prince Charles has received congratulations from ,tl,le Emperor of China in reply to the notification of 'l4)llruania's independence. of At a meeting of the Common Council for Llie City London, for the election of okicers of the court, amendment declaring the (Alice of Remembrancer vacant has been carried by 107 votes to 45 Adolph Drammer has been charged at the _Mansion --•°use, London, with an infringement of the 67th section of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1870, by. coacealin", spirits, with a view to evade the higher r,te of &Ay, among casE ..of wine Sir Thomas .)svden said if the Customs authorities had pressed for the full penalty of £lOO he would have inflicted lt• A.s it was, he fined defendant £2B 19s. 6d., being treble the value of the duty of the forfeited goodo, t4res months' imprisonmept....4,l _  THE_ STAA'r  ARMY AND NAVY ESTIMA  The Army estimates of effective and non-effective services for 1881-2 have just been issued. The total estimated expenditure on the Army for the year, including £580,500 excess expcn liture for the Transvaal, is £16,109,500, as compared with £15,987,300 for the previous year. This shows a net increase of expenditure of £122,200, but, deducting this excess 2cnditure we hr.ve a decrease of £18,300. Deductfrom the above total the sum of £564,000, estimated Exchequer extra receipts, the net charge for Army services for the year will be £15,515,500. Of this sum the amount required for the effective service is set down at £13,089,900, as compared with £13,243,900 in 1880-81, and for the non-effective ,services, £3,019,600. This is a cons siderable increase over last year, when the sum swallowed up by the non-effective services was £2,743,000. The Auxiliary and.lleserve Forces are estimated to cost £1,211,777, of which the Volunteers receive £522,396. The total number of men in the Army, exclusive of those serving in India, but including those on the Colonial establishments, is 133,210; last year the number was 131,859. The total amount required for excess expenditure in the Transvaal is £586,500. A supplementary Navy estimate just published amounts to £74,000. Of this £45,000 is for the line of transports, the balance being for conveyance of troops, for coals, and for freight of stores.