... I Boers Prepared for War.. Ruin Threatened to the Rand. The following special cablegram has been received at theoLondDO office of the 'Standard and Diggers'New3:- ,lOnANINlUSfltOa, AvuiUST 10. It has now becomo a fixed idea among thle Boors that the British Goverunieut is detcrrmioed to tako their coun- try, as their elyorts to mcct the Uitlehndcrs' demands are cunstantly charactorised as ...

... Tistrat POWs. OLEIVEDON. f The annual carbine matches between members of N4o. 9 Company Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery was held at the BUttB, West Clevedon, on Wednesday, Inbeautiful-weather. Thenumberofentriesshowed a considerable falling ol' compared with previous I years. 'WESTON-SUPER-MARE. At the police court yesterday (before Capt. Battls- combs and Mr Hunt), George Fletcher, ...

... S'CITY BOAD BAPTIST CsATAEL.-To-snorrow's preacher will be the Rev J, T. Briscoc. j PREsBY'TERAN Ciueciu.-TlleRev W. B. Cooper preaches to-morrow. There is a service on Wednesday evoning. a TYNDALE Cer^PEr,-Tyndale chapel, Whiteladies road, S will be reopened on September 3rd, being at prosent closed for repairs, MILIU STRMEET ClA1'EL.-Mr R. Burden and the Rev T. t Roberts will preach to ...

... BRISTOL COMMITTEE'8 AWARDS. A special meeting of the Bristol Technic.- ' tructlou Conmmitteo was held yesterday to aw nrar rious Science and Art Technical Sholarships offeru a-;,v petition ibis year. when there were present Aldern. . I. W..Jose (chairman), Messrs Anstey, Abbot, Coe, Elkiu. Humpage, Jones, and Tucker. T he following are the suceessful candidates in order of merit:- TWEMNTY ...

... I The Times' says:-There is no more interesting date in the farmer's calendar than that on which, year after year, the commencement of wheat cutting is recorded. As a rule, an early harvest is more likely to be successful than a late one, because the continuance of fine weather can be relied upon with greater certainty and the hours available for work are longer. In 1896, a year of heavy ...

... Our Agrfcultural Kette TItn l lcr l- - T).. lira. EHAi'V1mLX DELAY,., I.noI I. -'it JoII~ Iol'N t ked LIJ)U C ATLI A5 Xc Ni.Ll ti 'IOWN CHLLDZNL.:x. It iL *1st, 'L'i'.-UL.N~I ~-ht. OF' T'inc ATXIO-Nm[(, S. itL..LI tE,~ ON (Mn l 1 11Tni owe I u o I i T fully aildl~ r'ilidiy as 0In )ad' whait 1Iaelieretto .' y manua I abtin. AlI l R: 11In'e ben1 goinginl. ibie Luachinus, alidl( Io 3rd, haVe ...

... ZDC A,45t 24 POUM4 Tis a chronicle of day by day--The Tetnpcat, Consuls closed at 1064 for money and 1064 for account. Light S.W. winds and fine and warmer weather to-day. A frizzier for Friday. Maximum aun minimum temperature recorded by thermometer outside the BRISTOL MERCURY Office, 32ft. above the ground, for 24 hours ended at 2 arm. to-day :-76deg., 64deg, The Queen with the Duke and ...

... YESTERDAY, Their lordships met at three o'clock. ROYAL ASSEN'T. The Eo~al assent was given by commission to the c Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum Act, the Titbe Rent Charge (Rates) Act, the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Act, the Metropolis Management Acts Amendment (Bylaws) Act, and 79 Provisional Order and private Acts. The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Lord C ...

... BEDMINSTER AV ESLEYANS. X:. nniversary at Victoria Road., 'Iest rday in continuance of the 87th anniversary of the Sunday School of the Wesleyan Chapel, I so Victcria road, lBedminster, a tea and public meeting C wevre held, At the services on Sunday the Rev T. B. ' everies was the preacher, and there were large congregations. About 200 persons attended the tea, and tl ere was a good ...

... I I Sir Wllirid Lawson yesterday replied to the sug- gestion published on behalf of the Church of England Temperance Society that the Liberal party should concentrate their forces so far as the temper- ance problem is concerned on a Bill embodying the recommendations of the minority report Issued by Lord Peel and his colleagues. The hon. baronet says:- The Liberal party is at present in a ...

... ff -.1 lw . %V'Ptll Az?ilsr 24 Tpum emy, 'Tis a chronicle of dan by day.-Tho Tewpest, , and e the Consols closed at 1054' for money and 103. for more account. reign Light N. to S.WV. winds and fine to unsettled pro- weather to-day. The inore unsettled the better, r o Maximum and minimum temperatuie recorded by re to thermometer outside the BR1t6TOL MICuROR Office, wers, 32ft. above the ground, ...

... |tIHE WOOING OF BRISTOL EAST I Candidate Selectz. Mr C. E. Hobhouse. There was a full meeting of the Bristol East Liberal Association at Russell Town Schoolroom last night, when the 250 were summoned to make the final choice of a candidate to light the party battle in succession to Sir William Henry Wills, who has decided to retire from Parliamentary life at the end of the present session, It ...