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... SPREAD RLCTION. CAJiDAMAK OCCUPIED BY THE TRIBES. MUTINY AT KOHISTAN. EXPECTED ATTACK BY GENERAL BA K F P. MEWS FROM GENERAL ROBERTS. NATIVE TREACHERY. KHEYL, Friday.—The revolt is -teadily spreading in Afghanistan. A Lit; ore correspondent says :—Ganda- .'1ak. is no v occupied by the tribes. The Momuuds threaten Dakferw The troops at Cabul are levying heavy take^ on the in r- ,ant. The ...
... THE WAR I SOUTH AMERICA. BOMBARDMENT OF AUTOFAGASTA. VALPARAISO (via Lisbon), Saturday.— The Chilian ironclad Blanco Encalada left here on the 23rd inst, in search of the Huascar and Rima, which were reported to have been seen off Tacna. On the 26th August the Huascar and Rimac visited Autofagasta without attacking it. On the 28th, however, the Huascar re- turned, and bombarded the town for ...
... THE RAINFALL. Mr D. B. Lewis, of Tan-yr-allk, Ystalyfera, writes:—I beg to forward the following particulars of the rainfall in November :—9tb, '12 inch 11, '22 inch; 12 h, -09 inch; IStli^ 06 inch; 20th (S), -09 23rd (S), 08 total, -66 iuch. Total number of da-s, 6. In the conesponding month of last year 5'84 inches. ...
... ICE ACCIDENTS. BEAUFORT. On Sunday, as a lad aged 12 years, the son of Mr Joseph Evans, Beaufort Hill, was sliding on a pond in a disused quarry the ice gave way, and he fell into the water and was drowned. Several hours elapsed before the recovery of the body. HANLEY. The ice on a pond at Forebrook, near Longton, g&ve way during Suuday morning, submerging about a dozen men and boys, one of ...
... SWANSEA BOARD OFGUARDIANS. THE LLANDILO.TALYBOKT ACCOUNTS. The usual weekly meeting of the SWanRea Board of Guardians was held at the workhouse OIl Thursday, Mr Edward Bath presiding.—The Clerk (Mr Haynes) reported that he had expressed the views of the guardians to the town clerk ith respect to the situation of the polling-booth at Penderry for the School Board election, and while the latter ...
... On Tuesday the remains of Mrs WiHiams, of LI wynhelig. were interred at LIandyfeisan*: church- yard. The deceased ladv was advanced in years, and had been bed-ridden for many years. 8h ...
... Great hurricanes, accompanied by snow, prevail in the midland departments of France, and tele- graphic communication is consequently rendered very difficult. Westminster Hall will shortly be the scene of an important trial between the proprietor of a large estate in Kent, with an historical name, and his agent, who was a candidate for a seat in Parliament at the last general election. The ...
... THE DISPUTE IN THE NORTHERN COAL THADE. It is believed that the threatened strike of miners in south Yorkshire and North Derby will be averted, for at a meeting of the Coal Owners' Association, held at Sheffield, ou Thursday, the colliery proprietors offered to submit the dispute to arbitration. This new phase, on which the dis- pute enters, is owing to the efforts of Mr Mun- della. ...
... CONSTANTINOPLE, Monday.—The Sultan has refused assent to the appointment by Aleko Pacha of M. Keschikoti to a high administrative post in Eastern Roumelia, but the Governor-General has maintained him in his position, and has left the commu- nications of the Porte on the subject unanswered. ...
... THE VOLUNTEERS'AT DEVON- PORT. ORDER TO BREAK UP THE CAMP. The 1,300 artillery volunteers encamped on Studdon Height were favoured on Tuesday with finer weather than previously, and have quietly settled down to work, There was no nring nor any incident of importance to relieve the monotony. Half the Volunteer.) were taken to Drakes Island for heavy gun drill the other half marched to Bovis?nd ...
... A number of persons assembled early on Wed- nesday morning at the site of these docks, being attracted by the evident sigiis of an early smarting of tiie operations. The fornial ceremonv of turn- ing the first s)d is, we understand postponed for the present in the hope that the Earl of Jersey may perform it on his return from the Continent in about a month's time. Meanwhile, the work has ...
... A SWANSEA YOUNG MAN AND THE SERVANT GIRL. At tliS Swansea borough police court oa Thursday, the Mayor (Xr Jas. Rogers) presiding, a young man narnacl George Jones, a fitter, now living in Bedevue-street, was summoned by Sarah Gibby, Mariner-street, Once a servant in tlie house of defendant's mother,to contribute to the support of her illegitimate child, Mr Lawrence appeared for the complainant ...