... ILICENSED VICTUALLERS AT|, | SWANSEA. ANNUAL BANQUET. r S The ?? banquet of the Swvansec aend District ILicensed Victnalters and Beersellers' Assocation wvas held on Thursday evening. The occasion was ...

... COLLAPSE OF THE BUIILDING A FEARED LOSS OF 25 LIVES. A Reuter's telegram from New York on Friday A: says:-A fire broke out in the Windsor 3 Hotel, in Fifth-avenue and For ...

... | h BAYONETS IN RUSSIA AND HYMINS ii IN CANADA. h b The London friends of that persecuted people tho Russian Doukhobortsi have just received Wj details as to the arrival of the ...

... XTTI'lIU:DE OF.' THES GOVERNMENT . ,. I ANT) THE COUNTRY. ?? iirdn and' {uiexnlectec1 was the news So' 7baddenr and unexpectecl was the news n ,if 9ctral-Bulcr's. rever e that for a t . Vment it liad ...

... LOCAL NEWS P-RAGRRAPHS, Mr. J. W. Jones has tendered his resignation' of his seat on the Swansea School Board. ; Dr. Egbert Williams, of Bridgend, has bosh appointed deputy-medical officer for Porthea ...

... I' LIVERPOOL TRAM WAYS. i s THE FAILURE OF THE HALF- PENNY 'BUSES. K OPENING OF ELECTRIC LINE EXTENSIONS, A meeting of the Liverpool Corporation Tram- ways Committee was held yesterday in the Muni- cipal-buildings, Dale-street, Mr. NV. W. Ruther- ford presiding. There were also present Alder- t men F. Smith (deputy-chairman) and 'W H. Williams, Messrs. Harmood Banner, R. H. Bullen, E. Burns, ...

... F I G H J' I NG N. TrI [- - PHI -UL ,I PHTN ES. FOTJUP DAYS' &UExiLT?_,Pto t lf ~WARFARE. Yar rift TNl ednesday, :l 2_ S - r Ibeen sour da- cf tlh i 'Es; - ! :i nes 5 nojrt. a. d-- tl 17 ?? a-1 -o Cdone'1 Errant s a - ?- s, -CaIarba andi ?? A -2: - ivas hovering roud GumUa ?? .noon they clelivcred c degree tcae. Cr Calxma from the south and north-west, using two rapid. fire guns and one ...

... IHE CRISIS. ?? - BOER ULTIMATUM. SENSATIONAL RUIMOUR. COST OF THE CAMIPAIGN. £8,000,000 REQUIRED. PREE STATE BORDER CROSSED BY BRITISH TROOPS. UNCONFIRMED REPORT. GOLD SHIPMENT SIZED BY BOERS PEACE EFFORTS. REPLY OF BOER GOVERNMENT. ATTITUDE OF LIBERALS. The Press Associati learns that the Chancallorof the Elachequer has already sanctioned the provisional expenditure of three millions sterling ...

... MR. FISCHER'S CONFERENCE. THE FRANCHISE PROPOSALS. ALARTM AMONG TRADERS. Pretoria, Wednesday.-Mr. Fischer's con- ference with the Transvaal Executive con- cluded to-day. The general impression is that the mission has been successful. The result will not be announced until his pro- posals have been laid before the Volksraad on Monday next. It is understood some alterations have been made in his ...

... GROCERS, ASSISTANTS' UNION. , TO TEE FDITORS OP THE LIVERPOOL MERCuaR. Gentlemen,-May I be permitted to draw the attention of grocery and provision assistants to the Liverpool Branch of the National Associa- tion of Grocers' Assistants. ~any years ago the master grocers found it expedient to form their own organisations, independent of drapers, ironmongers, and other branches of the retail ...

... OUR AMERICAN LETTER THE NEW YACHT. RUMOURED PEACE PROPOSAL (SPECIALLY CABLED.) NErkw YOB, Tii}SDAY. The foundation is contemplated of a col- lege whose aim would be to instruct people in the best means of handling and extinguish- ing fires, saving life, &sc. AMr. Bonner, chief of the Blew York fire department, will prob- ably resign his post and become principal of the college. Mr. Rudyard ...

... FROM OUR LONNDoN CORRESPONDENT. Loawor. ?? 'XoaT. It would need a. good newspaper cor e. spondent with a graphic pen to pat the Samoan muddle in a light intelligible to the British public, who have no very clear idea of the historic rights and wrongs of tha question. But the German Emperor's CD- conditional demand that the final sett lemezt must be unanimously agreed to-by the three Powers is ...