... ISH OEBURYNESS MEETINGe I The thirty-fifth encampment of the National Artill3rj association opened at Shoeburyness yesterday. Tha Artillery Volunteers who have entered for the com- petitions for position and garrison Drac- tice are quitefewv as compared with pre- vious years, and ?? expenditure of big gun ammunition from the School of Gunnery batteries will be relatively snmall. What the ...

... H PENSIONS. WHAT Is DONE ABROAD. departmeut of the Board Mh a o nrdOay.7 issued a6 paper of Trad'.h0t is done by Continental *howin. th 'way of providing forthe1 ;ation5 13, Eleven countries are de- pior. t a general system of wit inth vsthre s goerold age, and Inz Gernano suranosb aemiest dagan coml~uirY Offver 4Q0;,000 ?? drew ?? 1g97 1mo ntrng to 2.750,5311.. llnt 1079,823l. wa~s provided ...

... - I lb seems only two or three months sines that the Elcho shield, having been won In 1898 by the English team, was handed over to Sir H. Davies, M.P. (late Lord Mayor), and now it is aunounced that on Saturday, Oct. 21, the trouhv will be again taken to the Guildhall if the City of London, and, for the ensuing 12 months, formally presented to Sir J. V. Moore the present Lord Mayor, the ...

... I MEETINGS & I l Yntional S u ,-rI .E - Gr-.at Ceutral PItl-r 'rt 1130a.mu.. to iri , , worthand Leices' 5d l trt d Notticahbam t. 4' l ?? i i tiritccsic, ?? Scr.i o c ~ -a PBy Soth-Easter a Street l.-12, ro2l , . 1.15, w ,e)lws, ;* 1ocxliII, acid Donr - S.r. Bands p ?? ,, Batter;ea, i'l Jl y, toria IamIcs, -,.d i c. t.G.. Bandj IaY ?? Kseannis Otoni ai 1i . tall woods, C os FieLds, e'o-tm I ...

... I H{OME PETS. I SNAKES AND FBOGS. Of the many creatures that axe nowadays acde pets of, perhaps the oldest are snakes and frogs, The repugnance so usually ex- perieneed at the sight of a snake does not prevent a large sale of tho reptiles by the purveyors of live creatures. The common English ,rSke, ealled also the Grass fnake, the Water Snake, and the Ringed Snake, makes an interesting and ...

... ?? SUNDAY EDITION, CONTAI;N'I ALL SATURDAY'S NEWS. N 47S office SILV)AY M ~ORN.ING.I COXTENTS. 55K9 PAGES. snTU-DAY'S Y 3 HOME AM-D TORiPIOT 3 4 NpYlS 13 T5 (23 SATZBDAIS SP03TS L24 1,-The Parng P~eg Mfore Ludicrous Inci- -Tie Transinal Crisis: Mr. Ct X rrat5A!a5N WTarning to Kruger- a-, uicn sat' n lart'i-st Home. g,-S ?? lv Si. Hicks Besairh-Tester- y s ?? -ttLcnr:-Colttsian at flidla.r~l- ...

... I Abyssana, East Indiles Lanerall Sheerness A c ha li e a, PorWmoath Lapwmeg East Indies jltlect idegcrva) P, Jtomi, P'rtsai'th ?? Actire, Fortsi'thI (F. 1L.) Jeander. Pacific Sitolue, lievonport IF. 11,1 Leda, tender to Australra Agancmmnoo, ?? I eupard Devolport ( .Lierty. 3evon-ort Arjmcourt, tender to Bos- Liltey Ooquimoo cay en Lightning, tep. to Vlotory A~ax, Chatham (F. R.) Liuet, h ima ...

... THE WELSH COLLIERY DIS- ASTER. It would seem, if the reports be cor- rect, that the nineteen lives lost in the terrible explosion at Llest Colliery, in the Garw Valley of South Wales, on Friday morning, were sacrifices to some- thing very near akin to criminal negli- gence. The pit was known to be gaseous, but because recent investigations have shown that the chief danger of explosion in coal ...

... | .MINERS KILLED AND INJURED. A. terrible gas explosion occurred on Thursday in the Hope tavern, Netherton, near Dudley, a place much frequented by minors. The whole of the building was demolished, and John and James Devonport, father and son, two colliers, lost their lives, their bodies not being recovered from the dibrisnutil two hours after the explosion, which happened at 11 o'clock at ...

... RyYFUS'S eJUDGES. THEi SECRET DOSSIER UNMASKED. EsBjERAL MERCIER SAYS 5T OFFICER LIES. rrZTI'' sSPECIAL rSEVICE.] rNyES, ?? the court- FiNirEqlisd this morning M. Bertil ft Avhoibad Occlpied the greater part day 5 sittie, rs~appeared on the wit a' his packets and port- J *- joln ng the masasof photograpbs, fe~i55 sntii! .d doeammente acemulated d~~iwing5 anlborate tests durirlg the pi gr555 of ...

... 'While during this spell of dry weather the ordinary citizen is troubled by the water question, the anrler is doubly aficted, since with him it is just now a worm and water cuestion. If the stock water is low the stork of worms is lower, and the fish are gaping for the bait that comes not, for a worm fauine has set in. The ceutre of the worm trade is N otting-ham,.whosefanious lobs, ...

... FORICRGN TELEGRAWIS. TILE PARIS SIEGE. AK ATTEMPT 0ON THE DRAINS. PALIS, Saturday -The poliwa have oot bs -Oflor bl;ply from the besieged t rus in the RAle de Chabrol One of -l. (aorll ferid, was suddcuiy talkei 5rM il ?? Itse hooe Chabrol presented a very ,tlae'Od 01'!arance for some time last s 'h'l etilne friends of ?? odurin lta quantiti e of pro- Atttn~ jots the tI gucres zarrison. At: ...