... Damage £ 30.000. exteusivo biscuit1 fafc ^essrs James Brownlie's Miles from Glasgow0 HK at seven be'««T high the fi,' S m°rniDR. The wind when the engines arrived and three b.ikmg establishments lar*e8t °f end to end. A plenti^r burninK from obtained, but all thi filial SUPP,y °f *er was P-venttheflunesTpreX0; d° to rescued with difficulty T 7^ l,0rses wero thrown idle. The dam W° nJred ...

... THE LIBERAL SUCCESSES. Mr S. D. Waddy writes :—Bye-elections have occurred in 58 constituencies. Twelve of the vacancies were caused by the gift of peerages or judicial appointments, and were of course held in places which the Government considered to be safe seat-s. If therefore we were to exclude these from our calculation, we should still be fair. But even giving the Government the benefit ...

... THE PREVALENCE OF FEVER, A Times Zanzibar telegram, dated Tuesday, mentions a report that the Arabs have made a demand for the evacuation of the coast by the Germans as a first condition of the release of the im- prisoned missionaries. The naval garrison landed at Dar-es-Salam has been compelled to withdraw because offever. There was more fighting at Bsgamoya on Saturday. Tho British Indians ...

... THE CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST CETEWAYO'S SON. Tue Press Association says the judicial committee of privy council, consisting of Lord Chancellor Lord Hobhouse, Lord Fitzgerald, L ird Watson, Lord MacNaghten, and Sir William Greville to-day heard a petition for a new trial made on oehalf of Dmizulu, son of Catswayo, that he might be re-tried on a charge of murder, alleged to have been committed ...

... Starr-Bowkett Bui Iding 1 Society. SECOND NEWPORT DISTRICT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTH WALES ECHO. SIR.-I am a number of the Second Newport (Mon.) and District 431st Starr-Bowkett Building Society, holding a group of four shares on which I have paid L25 7s, and on the 1st September, 1887, I gave the usual three months' notice to with- draw, After the notice had expired I called upon the ...

... Loss of a Newport-Laden Steamer. ANOTHER TERRIBLE INCIDENT OF THE LATE GALE. The s.s. Budapest, which left Newport on the 30th of January, bound for Las Palmas, one of tho Canary Islands, with a cargo of 1, £ 0j tons of coal, is reported missing. The vessel belonged to Messrs Burrell and Sous, shipowners, of Glasgow, and was laden in the Alexandra Dock, Newport, the brokers being Messrs Watts, ...

... Father J. A. Kelly, of Oneida, New York State, has been lying at death's door Icr some days, having been poisoned while celebratill masa at Patrick's Church, in that town. During; the ceremony the priest drank the sacred wine, aud afterwards experienced a severe burning sensation In the stomach. He was assisted into the sacristy, and, suspecting that lie bad been poisoned, swallowed an emetic ...

... I A Very Proper Verdict. I t In the Queen's Benoh Division, yesterday— before Mr Baron 14ddleston and a common jury —the case of Simpkins v. Garrett was tried. The plaintiff, Mrs Eliza Anne Simpkina, sued Mr John Garrett to recover damages for breach of promise of marriage. The defendant denied tbe promise and the breach, Mr Lyon and Mr Lyndon Bell appeared for the, plaintiff; while Mr Cock, ...

... DEATH OF AN EMINENT WE8LEYAN. Wesleyan Methodists everywhere will hear with regret of the death of the Rev Luke TyermaD, one of the foremost ministers of the denomination, which occurred on Thursday at his residence, Clapham Park, London. The imme- diate cause of death was dropsy. The deceased entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1844. He is well known as the biographerof Wesley, Whitefield, and ...

... THE ESSEX VICAR'S CATECHISM Opposed to Christian Charity and the Church's Teaching. The Archbishop of Canterbury, replying to a correspondent, strongly condemnh the catechism published by the Essex vicar, Mr Gace, which recently attracted much attentiou. The Arch- bishop says much of it is opposed alike to Christian charity and the teaching of the Church of England. ...

... WHAT THE OLD CLOCK SAID. Here I have stood in the wide, roomy kitcbea for the past sixty years, and, as you may suppose, have seen a good many things in my day. As a rule, I am good-natured—unless a amall boy pokes me with a stick, or another ill- conditioned little wretch evinces a desire to pry into my internal economy; such rudeness always riles me—and tick away patiently in my corner, ...

... (BY OUR NCWMILLLKET CORRKSPONDKNT.) I NEWMARKET, Friday. — On the Kacecourse side, Marsh's Scottish Fusilier ami Evangelist were sent a mile Oddfellow, Mon Droit, and Beaulieu goinar mile; OddfeIlow, Mon Droit, and Beaulieu goinar six furlongs. John Dawson's, jun, Ham, Homemade, Lutzen, and Estafette galloped a mile and a quarter. Rvan's Evergreen. Jxia. and Helioscene negotiated six furlongs ...