... All accounts speak of the gale of Sunday night as one of the most terrible ever experienced within memory of Dundee. The captain of one of the steamers which ply to and from Newport states that the spray on the river was flying to the height of a hundred feet, and that the gusts of wind were at times so terrible as to render it ?? for a person tostand inths face of it. It was in a gale of even ...

... YR WYTINOS, YnR HE2 AIR NEwYDD.-Tra mae yr her, ' ?? yn tynu ei thraed i'r gwely i D farw, mae y newydd yn gwneyd ei hym- ddangosiad gyda'r awgrym moesgar arferol z ei bod yn addaw bod i bawb yn ol fel yr ewyllysiant-ynjrfwyddyn neoydZ ddda. Mae r profiad yn ein dysgu na bydd felly i bawb; aond nid oes neb a'n beiant am ewyllysio hyny. Gyda golwg ar fasnach y wlad rhaid n i ni gydnabod ei ...

... latfo*iou O 9mr4o. Y BS SHOPSTON.' j CYNGERDD.-NOS Iau diweddafi cynbaliwyd m cyngherdd mawreddog yn y leyma, dan lywydd. y iaeth yr Hybarch Mr Jones, fleer. Yr 4rttes oedd- ei 'ynt ttr Cryar, 8ketty; Mnr. Seth P. Jones, John i- a David Evana (Eos Rhidian), o'r Crwys; Mtisses rn Stevens, Col;ins, a Gniffiths; yn ughyda' Mrs ai Jms nit BIRKENHEAD Id Be FAnw.-Rhsgfyr 14, yn 33 mlwydd oed, o'r mn ...

... THE FIERCENESS OF THE HURR- ICANE. The fearful nature of the utorm is well indicated by the statement of Professor Grant, of the Glas- gow Observatory, who, by means of his self-re- cording instruments, aunounces that at seven p.m. on Sunday the barometer stood at 28*98 inches, and the wind was blowing from the S.S.W. with a speed of 72 miles per hour. He says A little before 3.0 p.m. the wind ...

... THE KEANSLRY COLLIERY EXPLOSION. The coroner's jury on the inquest on the remains of the five miners who perished by the explosion at Kearsley, near Bolton, have returned a verdict of Accidental Death but recom- mend that more precautions in future be taken on the part of the officials of the colliery. It will be recollected that the mine has been worked for years by naked lights, and that it ...

... The proposal for the establishment of a Society for Musicians in Wales was discussed on Monday night at Carnarvon Guildhall, there being a laree representative gathering of persons interested in the music of the Principality. The formation of the society was decided upon; the Rev. E. Stephen (Tanyrwarian), composer of the oratorio The Sea of Tiberius, being elected president, and Dr. Parry, ...

... rJ.±U.XUJ i.JIINMI¶JL M.L VALIJL W-. I The constables of the Lawford's gate Division yeater. day had their annual dinner, the expenses of the gather. ing being, as in previous years, kindly defrayed by the magistrates of the division, whose generosity was much nppreciated. The repast was provided in the spacious dormitory attached to the station, and the room was pleasingly decorated, ...

... THET AFFGHAN WAR. ?? nldrTU REOCCUPATION OF CAI3UJL, gs [IlnUTorsa's TELEOrtnw.] 'as ST. PTIlassBUtac, WEIDNESO)&-. duv Lte The Incrclie Ruisse to-day publishes a telegram in]) from Tash~kend reporting the arrival there on the SOL tbl or 23rd November last of thle Alfghan sirdars, Neik tu, ag Mahomet IKhar, brother of the late Shere Ali, and aid 74 his cousin, the Ul~ema Hussain Khan, ...

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... GAS SHARES. The sudden fall in the price of gas shares, con- sequent apparently up-n the telegram in the Times relatiug to Mr Edison's doings at Menlo Park, suggests ti e reflection that neither stock- broker nor stockholders are mindful of the Horacian advice. The grateful and enthusiastic correspondent somewhat marred, perhaps inten- tiorally, the value of his admiration by referring to the ...

... CABINET COUNCIL. J SPECIAL TELEGRAM.] On Wednesday night summonses were isned for a Cabinet Council, to be held at tSie Prion Minister' official residence on Saturday tiext, sA three o'clock. ...

... I THXE 2L-iPGlST ORGSA-F IN TH4E ?? . One of uie roost rewm.rable organs ever yet'de- eigned is about to be erected at Garden City, L;,U4 Isallad, at a cost of 4about 40),000 dollatre. -t w!il in the firat pl ace be larger than tiat in our owu Alberv EaJIl, whlich is now vie~lltnown7 to be thc largwert in eaje~teo~ce. The 'a~tterhaa ill stops, ww~i~ the one planned for the cathedrl in Garden ...