... COLONIAL AND WAR OFFICES. A QUIET DAY. There appears to be no sign of Mr. Charmber- lain's speedy return to London, and yesterday the Colonial Office had one of the quietest days since L affairs in the Transvaal reached a critical stage. At the War Office, ...

... House of Lords to ask a question. Ft was not about the SpanishlAmerican..War, which was then raging, it was not about the vwr clouds, which, even then, were gathering over Sth Africa. It wah, Did -a certain milnister.of the church give azittle prayer book; ...

... two Governments and the incalcul- able harm and loss it has already occasioned, and to prevent a racial war, from the effects of which South Africa may not, recover for many. genera- tions-perhaps never at all-and, therefore, this Government, having regard ...

... convinced the ?? of the ifferences might be settled witht -war. : Mr Comp'oa 'icket, .orough member, wrote that in -the caiise of peace it would be wise to increase the British forces in Soiith Africa, so as to 'onviece the Boers of the 'hopelessness of r ...

... while Colonel Picquart. -was sent on an expedition -tol!lirica. When he was in Africa no one, could communicate with him, and letters sent to any person by him through the War Office were every one opened. Zola, the noyelist, wrote a letter to one of the ...

... Dreyius the culprit (great sensation). He read a long extract from a letter which he wrote to General Bil- lot, then Minister of War, on the 6th Januaury, 1898, to-protest aginst these- lies. -'eneral Billot made rV reply, and did not institute any inquiry ...

... Scottish Rifles, being at the Lead of the 2nd Battalion of the reaiment when it took poart in the Zulu war of 1879. When he came home from South Africa in that year he was appointed to command the Belfast district. M Battery Royal Horse Artillery, at Wo001wch ...

... Glasgow. under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel E. P. Morgan- Payler, is one of the corps namned for active service in South Africa. Sergeant Spencer, Royal Field Artillery, Shorn- cliffe, has been appointed to the permanent staff of the Donegal Artillery ...

... East Africa, which will be occupied and administered by her Majesty's Government. It is understood that the German Emperor has also secured certain advantages of a similar nature and ol strategic value to the German possessions in East Africa. ...

... allowed out on their own-i reco)- nisance, Joseph 3Magee, vwho was convicted i'f housebreaking and larceny in York Street, war t sent to jail for twelve months and two years' -police supervision. Edward Burns, who wazi con- victed of receiving a watch ...