... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... Tuve 4Lt 24 )Ourz. 'Tis a chronicle of day by day-The Temvp, Consols closed at 105 13-16 for money and account. Freshening S.W. winds and changeable, showery, and thundery weather to-day. To mitigate that awful stink which hangs about the New Cut's brink. Maximum and minimum temperature recorded by thermometer outside the BRISTOL MERCURY Office, B2ft. above the ground, for 24 hours ended at 2 ...

... SI)e Cralft of Vri.5tolo Fain at last ! Alter seven weeks of drought, liuisbIirig up vitlh go degrees of heat registered by Mr Dix on Durdhatn Down on Sunday, the rainfall anter midnight on Sunday lnod the heavier showers of yesterday nere welcome in the extreme. Less than a quarter of ril inch of raia had fallen during tiveor six weeks, nnd only abGut an inch in two months, and Maany would ...

... . LONDON COTNTY COUNCIL PROSECUnTIOUN At Worship-street Policc-court, yesterday, Charlu Toohbe., 62, scale maker, of Camden-street, Beth- ram-green, who had been arrested on a warrant charging him with counterfeiting and using a die or stamp for stamping weighing instruments con* trary to the Weights and Measures Act, 1878 an 1889; and Morris Sfchapnithki, a butcher, of Wena, worth-street, ...

... DEE YFUS CROE8HOLIADAU LLYIIOI. TYSTIOLAETH Y CADFRIDOGION. 180.4. Dydd Mercher. Ynmae y ddrama--fel y liate y W~asg Soisnig yn. ei gahw-yn parlaa, i fyned yn minen yn Renoes. ]Jechreuwyd borcu heddyw am uigain'mynyd i saith. Y tyst cyntaf a alwyd oodd yr Iw dwdd . Roy, Comptroller, i foad wedi hod yn gweitrhio mew adran y ma y Swyddfa Rhyfel, yn agas i Dreyfus. Ni bu yn eiddiddan llawer a'r ...

... LONG LIVE, GUERIN ! *. NOT MUC11 'TO LIVE ON. y ONLY TWVO SACKS OF POTATOES: LEFT. 6 Paris, 11onday.-Abont two oelock this morning a party of yonng men started shouting Long live the ). army, Long live Guer1,' in the n Rle Lafayette. The police intervened and malade onI arrest. g The beseiged ?? bad an- o other undisturbedl night. None of the3m1 have appeared on the roof this n° morning. ...