... THE HEALIR CONDITIONS O? OOAL MINiNG. A\s to whether there are ?any diseases peculiat to tne miners calling,, there is evidevnce that, wvith one, or prerhaps two. Cxccpt-itfs. there are none such. Th'ese excep~tions arc ae affection of the eyes, termed Ny~sreagnes ?? and, in a lesser de- gree, that dlisan se of the reapcr;atniy orgen~s w~hichs enniell~y goes hb- the naanes of eoincr& asthma I ...

... BOY?'C?MIANIE? IN NEW¶QW?iARJ? INSPECTION BY LORD LONDQNDE~tY. On Saturday last the Marquis of London dextt inspected and addressed the recently-formned Boys! Companies in Newiowna~rds. A s his Lordship elight'd from his carriage at the Londonderr Schools, the military salute wias played by tin o inte f the companies. Subsequently to the ravice.i of the two companies, the boys were dravwn up ...

... INSURGENT TROOPS AND THEIR DEMANDS. THE CASE FOR GENERAL GOMEZ. PRESS ASSOCiATION EoRlUGN SECIAL. Reuters Agency has received the following com- munication from Captain Juan Fernandez, official representative of General Meximo Comez in Lon- don.:- As representative of General Manimo Gomez and the Cuban army, it becomesi my duty to dispel the false position in which public opinion in Europe ...

... THE LIBERTY AND PROPERTY DEFENOE LEAGUE. The sixteenth annual report of this organisation, containing an account of its operations during the year 1898, has just been issued. It opens with a statement of the work of the league in the distri- bution of literature and the part taken in the for- mation of the Labour Protection Association, and, indirectly, the Employers' Parliamentary Council. ...

... I , THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYECHUAN. INTERVIEW WITH MR. PRITCHARD MORGAN. PR5SS3 ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPECIAL. Reuter's representative yesterday had an inter- view with Mr. W. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., who arrived in London on the evening of the 5th inst. after a visit to China lasting eleven months. He said that one of the results of his mission was that the great and rich province Szechuan was to ...

... SERIOUS NEWS FEROM THEl PHILIPPINES. SEVERE, FIGHTING AT MANILA. IN'SURGENTS ATTACK TEE CITY. WARSHIPS IN ACTION. SUCCESS OF TUE AMERICAN'S. HEAVY FILIPINO LOSSES. A Renter's telegram, dated Manila, Sunday, ?? Americans repulsed an attack of the Filipinos last night on. Manila, capturing several of the enemny's positions. The A~merica~ns lost twenty killed, and had 120 wounded. Desultory ...

... ANNUJAL- MEETING. The annual meeting in connection with the Bel- fast City Mission was held yesterday evening in the Lecture Room, Fisherwick Place Church, under the presidency of the Right Honourable Thomas Sinclair, D.L. The attendance included-Revs. Henry Montgomery, John Greenlees, John Wad- dell, W. J. Jackson, James M'Connell, Jaimnc Maconachie (Agnes Street), Professor Hamill, J. H. ...

... SEVER4E WEAIIER IN SCOTLAND. VESSELS STRAINDED. NUtMIEROUS ICE FATALITIES. SPECIAL TELEGS-LM. (sL.kzrcow, MOXDAY--rom alz parts of Scotland reporzi are being received of terribly boisterous weitther. The weatther has been equally severe on sa and land. This normintg the schooner Harriet. of Urgtown, was replorted ushore at Reggivean Point, neadr Garliestrown, on the Gidloway coast, b-v-ieg ...

... REUTLEl'S T'ELEGrAIS. THE DREYFPUS AFFAIR. PARIS, Friday. The Temps publishes interviews with M-M. Paul' Meyer, Vory, and Molivier, witnesses at the Cri- minal Chamber yesterday. They affirn that, after comparing the handwriting of the hordereau with specimens of Esterha-zy's writing, they were con- vinced the borderead was written by that officer. The 'Liberte, on the other hand, contains ...

... IROn tSIANDAsR iNroTRUIfNlT 'dY StLrkRMAN D). NEXutI , (la, ios )O iteALL 1'LACs:. itf hutR &it'Y-Lufei' flfea. -n29Mm. 301s. owil.h I thur. 2 r Fr:. 3. oh0 'i~~WcXV rilshc aE.N.E. E E. IVX'rlr. 5 I- ?? ~ o lit 1dtaehih )T .JtLzInler :t i oon, black ine's at midnight. Initial letters ,sbow direction of win~d. Mercury falls for rai-, '.th S.W.. S.E., and IV. wind,,-sf -.r rap dly, tmu-.tlci ...

... BOYS' BJRIGA DE N OTES. flu La fu st±UaI 1/43 LAv At the coming battalion demnonstration the chtair will he taken by Sir Jamnes HRenderson, hcnorary vice-president of the Belfast battalionl. Sir James H~enderson has showrn a lively hitetest in the wvork of the Boys' Brigade ever since its introduc- tion into Belfast in 1888. He is the donor of the I Herider-son Tropxhy, a handsome challenge ...

... T- R CATHOLIC p\JVERSITY AGITATION. I - - - - .. _ -j ATTITUDE OF ROYAL UNIVERSITY SENATE. Ow o>piNON IS BEING IMAIDlr. :e ...