... Hill Fire in Somerset. THOUSANDS OF ACRES ABLAZE. The Result of Ptaying with Matches, One of the most destructive 6i.es ever known in West Somerset, if not the West of England ceuerally broke out on Thurs- day morning on property belonping to Mr G. F. Luttrill, of Dunster Castle. which is well known to many South Walian holiday makers The scene of the outbreak w.ia nearly two miles ftom tba ...

... The Transvaal, PROPOSED JOINT COMMISSION. THE DYNAMITE QUESTION. Pretoria. Wednesday.—Mr Conyngham Greene called on the Transvaal Executive to-day. it is believed, with the Imperial Government's des- patch regarding the proposed joint commission of inquiry. No official announcement has been made of the contents of the despatch.—Renter. RELIGIOIJS DISABILITIES. (Press Association Special ...

... I Woman Saved from Herself. I A woman named Irene ColwiU, wife of John Col will, in the employment of the harbour authorities, has attempted to commit suicide. She took a quantity of vermin poison, and was found unconscious on the floor of her house by her son. Dr. Payne, with the aid of the stomach pump, brought the woman round. She took enough poison to kill, but aid was so quickly at hand ...

... RELENTING WIVES AND OTHERWISE. The case against James Daley, hobbler, New- porot, for assaulting and wounding his wife, Julia Daley, one night last week, again engaged the attention of the magistrates at Newport Town Hall this morning. A police officer was called to the house where the Daley's reside, and found the wife with head and face bandaged. She accused her husband, who was also present ...

... THE GUERIN SEIGE. I I Beleaguered in Want of WatAr. Paris, Tuesday.—Complete tranquillity prevail to-day both in the Rue de Chabrol and its approa- ches, order being maintained, as it was yesterday, by Republican Guards and a number of detec- tives. Tbi3 morning the besieged, fearing an attack from gendarmes posted in the house ad- )oining their own on the Cite d'Hauteville side, soaked part ...

... A RANCH IN PAPilS.1 The boys called him 1; Frisco because he aaiisd from the Golden Gate city. and considered it appropriate whan he dubbed ills apartment the rancn. The room in question was one of many in a large house on the Rile de Yangirard. and faced an open court paved with asphalt, upon which opened a camber of ether apartments occu- pied by lodgers, of whom some made a well- feigned ...

... A remarl-able and touching scene is reported by the American papers as having occurred on the recent arrival of the liner Teutonic at New York. la the second cabin were twenty-eigbt bright-faced, rosy-cheeked girls, who had left their homes in Ireland under vow to enter a con- vent. Relatives of some of the girls met the Teutonic, and when the dark-robed young women left the steamship they ...

... George Trezise (40), a sea.ma.n, who lodged at I Dudley-street, Docks, Cardiff, accidentally feU near th3 Roath Basin this morning. The unfor. tunate man broke a blood vesssl and died soon I. afterwazda. ...

... SHOOTING AT GRANGETOWN, 3rd V,B. Welsh Cardiff Detach- ment. ANNUAL COMPETITION. The annual shooting competition among the members of the Cardiff Detachment 3rd V.H. Welsh was held at the Grangetown Range, Cardiff, to-day. The principal competition is open to members of the detachment who have attended 15 drills and who shall have fired his class by August 19th. The first prize is a cup (value ...

... Pantyffridd Wood, Berriew, Montgomeryshire, forming part of the estate of Mr Humphreys Owen, M.P., was yesterday afternoon the scene of the greatest forest fire known in the district for 30 years. The wood covers 200 acres, and in a very shor time 15 acres of larch and spruce were in flames. The blaze was tremendous, and was visible for miles. This fortunately attracted a arge number of people ...

... Prisoners in the Dock. I At Tewkesbury to-day Frederick Roden, of Birmingham, and James Tuft, of Wolverhamp- ton, were remanded charged with breaking into a residence at Coombe Hill, near Tewkesbury, on Wednesday and stealing therefrom X13 in gold, a lady's gold watch, and a considerable quantity of jewollery. Prisoners, who it is alleged affected ail entranse through a small window at the ...

... A good boll enlivened the description of a faasral which took place somewhat recently. In the course of a descriptive article the writer said that there was one exquisite family wreath, in the form of a crosa. In the same article there WM a wonderful error, evidently due, not to the wriwr, but to the exigencies of tiansninsion. The deceased was stated to be forty-five by the ) rights of the ...