... FOOTBALL. Pontlottyn Association Club. The annual general meeting of the aoove emu was held at the General Picton Hotel on Monday evening. A large number of enthusiastic sup- porters, consisting of the chief tradesmen of the town, were present, and from the enthusiasm displayed there is a. very bright prospect of the season opening in & creditable manner. The outlook up to last week was of a ...

... 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 ...

... WOMEN PUBLICANS. I At Bristol Browster Sessions yesttrday the Chairman said he had uotice.1 for many ye,%rs:ttiDt licensed hoases held by women were geneially conducted to the satisifaction of the magistrates. He might say that fewer women than men were brought before the Court for transgressing the laws. It might be that women had a keener sense of their moral duties, and he hoped they would ...

... TRANSVAAIL CRISIS SITUATION IN PRETORIA. Capetown, Tuesday.-The Progressives to-day express dissatisfaction with Mr. Schreiner's speech in the House of Assembly last night. They intend to organise mass meetings throughout the colony with the object of protesting against the Premier's attitude. A telegram to the Cape Argus from Pretoria describes the state of the town as critical. The ...

... OSBORNE, August 29th. The Queen and her Royal Highnenss Princess He-or) of Battenberg drove out yesterday afternoon, attended bv the Counltess of lvtton. Vice-Admiral Sir John Fullerton, AD.C., H.M.Y. Victoria and Albert, and Lady Fullerton had the honour of dining with her ilajesty last eveninl. and Staft Captain G. Broad, I-I.Y. Alberta' Staff Commander J. Tully, IlM.Y. Elfin, Lieut. ...

... THIR 10 HZPAL Brts oeeibwver, redy and s, I~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~nsie TheSV Indar aoer,6 -zil o frr I~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~s lsrg a cotrg n as SSItoe'mesbo I~ ~ ~ ~ ?? he aar eernsa i MP. CHAMBERLAIt3L~ TO THIE BOERS Th.a Proposed Joint Inquiry the Alternative Propos a, ASSOCiATIox pQAL} Pretoria k vunderstn o godaihry tt30- political position is as follow0 I, that t. seo the Transval Govern tent 'a ...

... BRITAIN LOSING PRESTIGE. (Press Association Special Telegram.) Pekin, Monday.—A foreign diplomatist of great experience in China, in the course of a conversa- tion which I had with him to-day, expressed the opinion that Great Britain had been practically reduced to a suppliant at Pekin, ttod this he considered the natural;outcome of .the consistently weak policy adopted in dealing with ...

... AMERICA'S COLONIES. SPANISH OFFICERS COURT MAHTIALLED. Washington, Monday Mrrning.—The War Office has been advised that three Spanish officers have been Court Martialled by the, United States commander at Manila on a charge of having re- tained the command at Presidio after Manila had been captured. Two of them were convicted on a second charge of embezzlement and were sentenced to three ...

... CHILD RUN OVER BY A CAB. DISAPPEARANCE OF THE CABMAN. On Monday evening, about 6.30, a serious accident happened iu Cathays-terrace. A little boy named Charles Turner was going shopping for his mother, who is ill, when crossing the terrace he was knocked down by a cab, which passed over the middle of his back. When picked up he was unconscious, and was taken to the Infirmary. The lad is about ...

... OUTBREAK AT GAINSBOROUGH. A Gainsborough correspondent telegraphs that small-pox has again broken out in the town. At a special meeting of the Urban Council on Monday orders were given for the isolation of the cases, and preparations were made for the possibility of further cases occurring. Two cases have now appeared. ...

... LOCAL CUSTOMS APPOINTMENTS. The following movements have been notified at the Customs headquarters in • —Mr W. McDonald, assistant, Cardiff, tooe second class examining officer, Liverp and district; Mr F. Kingdon, assistant, Cardiff, trans- ferred to Bristol and district; Mr M. L. appointed assistant at Cardiff; Mr E. W. Jonea, boatman, London, transferred to Newport; in W. G. Cavill, boatman, ...

... It is a curious fact that although Fleet-street is admittedly the home of the Press and centre of the printing trade of this country, scarce one in a hundred of the immense number of persons who earn their daily bread in its vicinity has any knowledge of the early Fleet-street printers. The popular impression seems to be, says the Press, that the only celebrity worthy of remembrance is Dr. ...