... The boy Duncan Johnson, who was seriously injured by falling from a train on the Great Northern Railway, near Grantham, last week, is progressing favourably at the Grantham Hospital. Beyond the terrible injury to the skull, no bones are broken, but he has extensive bruises all over the body. There are intervals of consciousness, when he can speak, but nothing intelligible as to how the ...

... GERMAN ACQUISITIONS IN SAMOA. I of State, is renoU h ?ayu r Bayard» Secretary to the rpc^nt n -r ° 6 (Jcclareti> in reference Nwth Grrmn-n °n ^arnoan affairs in the writer, ^TZr h8 ...

... Mr Vaughan Williams, barrister, was called within the bar this morning, the Lord Chief Justice expressing his gratification at seeing Mr Williams take a position to which his merits, entitled him. ...

... SERIOUS CiiARGE AGAINST A MONMOUfll PUBLICAN. At Monmouth borough police-rourt on Thurs- d'^y—i;efr»n ...

... 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 ...

... Nero fiddled whilst Rome burnt. Mr Balfour a ball to all the evicting landlords and Castle backs who were to be got together in Dublin on the very same day that Mr John O'Connell was dragged for three miles along the road and thrust into a cell, where be had to sleep on the ground. Her Majesty will only take a small suite to Biarritz, consisting of Lady Cburcbiil, Lord Bridport, Sir Henry ...

... Denbighshire County Council. THE FIRST MEETING. Election of Chairman. The first meeting of the Denbighshire County Councillors was held to-day at Ruthin County Hall.—Mr Lester, of Bersham, proposed Mr Tbos. Gee, Denbigh, as provisional chairman. This Was seconded by Mr Isycoed Jones. Captain Best proposed Captain Griffiths Boscawen, of Rossett, as chairman. Mr Fitzhugh seconded. Mr Gee was ...

... Lecture at Cardiff. I The first of a series of five lectures on the History Qt Nonconformity in England, its Heroes, SuEferings, and Tr omphs, was given in the Charles-street Congregational Chapd, Cardifif, yesterday evening by the Rev J. Williamson, M.A. The lectures have been prepared for the Congregational Union of England and Wales,and are illustrated by a large number of interesting and ...

... A CHARACTERISTIC COMMUNI- CATION. The following postcard to the Rev Newman Hall was read at the annual meeting of Schools at Christ Church, Westminster-road, on Tuesday evening:— Beloved Brother,— Your love allows brevity. Thank you. I aito arising from stupor to p-.iin, from pain to intervals of ease; from coughing hard to a weak voice; from writhing to wriggling about in an initial style of ...

... Henry Rowe, an assistant master in a Bir- mingham Board School, committed suicide yes terday. He had had a difference with a young lady to whoni he was engaged, and on Tuesday wrote two letters to friends stating that, having found her false, he would destroy himself. He was at school up to noon on Tuesday, and then disappeared until his body, with the head com- pletely severed, was found on ...