... THE SEIZURE OF A BANK. (Renter's Telegram.) Durban, Monday.—The proclamation of martial law has been received calmly here. It is regarded as a wise precaution in viewof the number of refugees of most undesirable character already in the city and increasing every day. Fully 3,000 have arrived from Delagoa Bay since Saturday. In proclaiming martial law the Governor says he is acting witn the ...

... DAWSON v. MACK. The match of 18,000, up between these players at Argyll Hall, in which Mack receives 7,00ft start, was advanced a stage yesterday, when the scores were carried to—Dawson, 16,501; Mack, 16,045. During the day Dawson made breaks of 9W, 87,163,140,78, 240, 74, 61, and 170 (unifnished), while Mack's best were 50 and 71. ...

... CARDIFF CONSERVATIVES AND MR MACLEAN. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Permit me to say, as chairman of the Cardiff Conserve tive Association, that there is absolutely no truth in the rumour that is in cir- culation, and which I am told is also in print, that a meeting has been called for next Wednes- day night, at which Lord Windsor will movea. vote of censure on Mr Maclean and that I am to second the ...

... THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO BRISTOL. Tha work at the Jubilee Convalescent Horr.o at Bristol (which is to bo opened by the Queen on the 15th of next month) is rapidly approaching completion, and preparations are now being made for the reception of the large company who will have to be accommodated within the grounds on the day of the opening. The occupants, of the grand stand will have a fell view of ...

... PUBLIC OPINION. MAJOR WYNDHAM-QUIN ON THE STRUGGLE. PATHETIC REFERENCE TO BRITISH LOSSES. Responding to The Army, Navy, and Re- serve Forces (proposed by Mr Lewellen Wood, J.P.) at the annual dinner of the Bristol Channel centre of the Institute of Marine Engiueers at Cardiff on Saturday night, Major Wyndham-Quin, M.P., said the nation had entered upon the war in South Africa with the greatest ...

... THE POSITION OF CARDIFF. At a meeting of the General Purposes Com- mittee of the Cardiff Corporation on Monday, in answer to Councillor Robinson, his Worship the Mayor (Alderman S'r Tbomad Morei, J.P.) said that there v/as no prospect of the Corporation being allowed to buy out the local telephone system, because the Government expected to able in 25 years to acquire the telepnomc system ...

... SANITARY INSPECTORS. CONFERENCE AT PONTYPOOL. The third meeting of the session of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Sanitary Inspectors' Association was held at the Town Hall, Ponty- pool, ou Saturday evening. The members of the association were met at the Town Hall by ...

... A NEWPORT PORK BUTCHERS AMOUlid. At Newport Connty Police Court on SftJorSay the magistrates were occupied some tiait, in hearing details of the amours of William Baldwin, pork-butcher and pig dealer, of Laugstone, near Newport. The law's prosaic mode of dealing with these amours was in the form of a doable summons truken out at the instance of Edith Christian Theobald, the daughter of a ...

... QUEEN'S SYMPATHY FOR WOUNDED. MY HEART BLEEDS. The following message from the Queen has been received by the Marquis of L&nsdowne, Secretary of War Balmoral, Oct. 22nd, 1899. My heart bleeds for these dreadful losses. Again to-day a great success, but fear verv dearly bought. Would yon try and convey my wannest heartfelt sympathy with the near relations of the fallen and wounded, and ...

... A LOVE TRAGEDY. A singular case of saicide was brought to the notice of the Metropolitan Police of the Y Divi- sion on Mon-ds.y, when the dead body of Charles Childs, aged 20, of 71, North-road, Highgate, was found in the allotment gardens near his own home. On Sunday afternoon Childs his mother, sister, and sweetheart were at tea together, and the deceased wauted to sit next to hie sweet- hea ...

... BOER ULTIMATUM. IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS. WITHDRAWAL OF BRITISH TROOPS. SOLDIERS EN ROUTE NOT TO DISEMBARK. COMPLIANCE TO-DAY DEMAMDED. THE OFFICIAL DESPATCH. MINISTERS UNDISTURBED. DEFENCES BELIEVED TO BE SECURE. COLONIALS' LOYALTY. THE NEW SOUTH WALES LANCERS START. TROOPS FROM OTHER COLONIES ACCEPTED. England is now to all intents and pur. poses plunged in war. The Boers have taken the bold ...

... Cape Town, Thursday, 11 p.m.—A Mafeking telegram states that a commando of Boers arrived at Polfontein, while another, under Commandant Cronje, is stationed near Louws Farm, on the Ottoshoap-road, to watch the border. The garrison at Lobatsi reports the Boers are encamped at a point four miles across the border at Bloemfontein. A town guard is being enrolled. An ambulance corps leaves there to ...