... A 300 Feet Monster Seen off Lowestoft. I Some Lowestoft fishermen relate a remarkable tale of having seen a sea serpent off the coast last evening. The monster was observed a few miles off, and all who sighted it agree in their descrip. tion of it. They are positive they laboured under no optical illusion. The closest view was obtained by the lugger Conquest, belonging to Banff. While all the ...

... BY NOR NKWMAKKK1 COBRKSPON DKNT. I NtcwMAKt: to-. Saturday.-On the Bury side, J. Dawson's, jun.,rLord Hervey, McNiel, Faute de Mieux, and Vizard galloped a mile Lord Hyde. Lady Nithsdal*, Queen Isolde, and Potboy went five fnr. longs. Enoch's, sen., Seaholm and Verte GrezJJwere sent seven furlongs. Gurry's Reprobate, Frivole colt. RoyaJ Arms, Norah Sandys. and l.uiscben galloped a mile. ...

... Men of the Day. Mr Clement Shorter. Mr Clement Shorter has become q'1it,e no authority on mutters relating to ti>s? Bronio fumi'y, and his interesting monograph 0*1 tliij subject oughts to oe read by everyone who has been de. lighted by the work of the gifted sisters. Mc hurter began hi iiterary career while lie still a Civil servant by j writing a. COhHilll (.f literary note.? for a London ...

... John Hitcacock, landlord of the Lamb, ham, who was convicted yesterday at Oii of the manslaughter of bis wife. whom he, It if alleged, threw on the kerb, fracturing her was to-day sentenced to six months' hard iabottfc ...

... Margaret Phillip*, ...

... PROPERLY MARRIED. I Public-house Declamation. I Yesterday, at the Edmonton Police Court, amongst the applicants was a young woman abont 20 years of age, who asked for a summons against a woman for insulting ber. Mr Pedley How did she insult you ? Applicant: She said I wasn't married, sir. She said, You're no married woman. The man you live with is old enough to be your father. And I am ...

... THE COURT. The Central News Windsor correspondent telegraphs According to present arrangements her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Henry of I Battenberg and family, will leave Balmoral on Friday, November 13th, and travel all night by a special train, acriving at Windsor terminus of thq Great Western Railway on Saturday morning shortly after 9 o'clock. ...

... A Farmer and His Wife. I » ACTION FOR DIVOROE. I In the Divoroe Division to-day the case Nix versus Nix, Green, and Fitxpayne came on for hearing. This was a case in which Mr Thomas Nix, a gentleman farmer, of Neatmoor Hall, Downbam, Norfolk, petitioned for a divorce from his wife, Myra Nix, against whom he aUeged adultery with Mr Wm. Green and Mr Frederick Fuzpayne, Answers were filed denying ...

... PROPOSED NEW DOCK AT LLANELLY. J I Boring operations in connection with the pro- posed new dock for Llanelly are now being vigorously proceeded with under the superin- tendence of the resident engineer, Mr Colin Fowler. The present operations are a neceenaryI prehmma.ry to the actual work of construction, i ...

... ALCOHOLIC TEMPERANCE DRINKS, Extensive Proceedings at Leads. At lieeda on Wednesday a number of shop- keepers were charged under the Excise Acts with celling beer without a licence. The proceedings | were instituted in con-^quence ot the discovery hy Soraersat Hous:- officials that many of the -i -called ternyaranctt dnnks being made and sold throughout the country contained considerable ...

... ACCIDENT OR SUICIDE P Death of M. de Lesseps' Son. Pa BIS, Wednesday.—Vio'-or ds; Les«-:ps, sou oi j the great engineer, died last n!i)t from the effects of falling down the well of the staircaso of his j house, He fell from the to the bottom, a height of four storeys. It is reported that M. du Le-a-s'ips committed suicide, as it is known that he was profoundly by the mi.fortunes he expressed ...

... TO-DAY'S WEATHER, 4.30 P.M. TO-DAY'S FOBECAGTC. FOR HUQLAHU, X. IF., AKi SOUTS WALKS, Light breezes, chiefly northerly unsettled some showers. OExHitAL --Showery weather is likely to continue in most dis- tricts. ...