... I HERALD OsnCE, 5.15 A.M. THE TRANSVAAL CRISIS. LATEST DESPATCHES. BOERS REPORTED OVER THE NATAL BORDER. (DAILY TELEGP.%C5'5 TTF.LOR-X-T.) Ladysnlitb, October 9. 1.30 n.m. A lrucvtworliry Colonial from Charlestown, r-ut- at lieifast Farm, states to-day that he snxri 1i) ?? B~ers yesterdythty npon MaInnings l rm above his property but within the Natal| Elorrc'c. President Kru-er Interviewed, ...

... CONSERVATMVE CONGRESS I AT ABERDEEN. 1 In connection with the annual meeting of 1 I the Scottish National Union of Conservative A Associations to be held at Aberdeen to-day, at Icouple of smoking concerts Were held last night 1 i -one in the Conservative Club and the other in i the Union. The Hon. John E. Gordon, MY.r. for Morayshire, was principal speaker at both, entertainments. Referring to ...

... MUNVICIPAL MEETINGS. GOVAm.-Provost Kirlkwood presiding. Mr Mathews moved That the Board remit to a committee to consider and report as to the steps necessary to put in operation the proei- sions of the Housing of the W'lorking Classes Act, 1890. It was, he said, a very inportant qu estion, and one which appealed to a corn- munity with such a large residential popilavion as Govan. As to the ...

... I . Its SCENE OF HOSTILITIES. THE TRANSVAAL TACTICS. PROPOSED ATTACK ON COMMUNICATIONS. TEXT OF REPLY TO ULTIMATUM. BOER OT11AGES CONFIRMED. REPORTED OCCUPATION OF LANG'S NECK. DR LEYDS AND THE NOTE. A SERIOUS MISTAKE. FEARED FLOODING OF THE MINES. Those people who expected a British victory an hour after the expiry of the time limit of the Beer ultimatum must be sorely disap- pointed, for ...

... THE I OUG-H BOUNDS OF I SCOTLAND. I All who lhave rounldedl the Point of Ardna- is or murchan-the ?? Height. of the Boisterous Sea' cl -may have experienced, with varying feelings, whi( thle long roll of the Atlantic, but not many, and perhaps, realised that they had entered in S, the Roughi Bounds of Scotland. For such is nyc the meaning of the Celtic name, Carb/- rieca Clsriocltea, which ...

... LABOUIL AFFAIRS. THE COTTON TRADE. The quarterly report of the Eoecuti-c Cru-.mc of the Amalgamated Association of Card an Biewing lloom Rands was issued yestheruoc ?? that in taking a retrospective glance at:- state of trade the council must admit it liad no' had auite that healthy lool it had thrc'.'; ago, and more especially had t a been the case during the lzt1 weeks,' for whilst orders ...

... ECCLESiASTICAL. DAT~al.M.^.rNXOCa .RO-D V.P. Caress.-Oti Wed- nht At -tHome os tisr workers, nv-as nigh tite -ch ?? prenaratoe t their I entering upon the winter's work. TIher' were over 70 wh-to responded to the invitation. The RiLv. R-berc -Uall, Mizkister of the congregatioo, ioccupied tle chair, and gave a uitable ?? on ' Ideal Church Life and \Saor\ ow i Rtealised.' Rteports and remarks ...

... ]HEIALD OnriC, 6.13 A.M. LATESTr WAR NEWS. ENTRY OF BOERS INTO NATAL. (lloss Til SPECI AL CORItESPONDENT OF THE ovxASOrW H ERALPD ANTD DAILY TCLEG~iRAM.) La'nIsmith, Woednesdavy, 5.o5 p.m. One luandrod and fifty invalid soldiers were sent dowin to Pioctrmaritzburg this evcn atng. ?? I avr has begun, an' the Boers are in I Nat.al. Thne rrec State Burghers have also seized tlhno Harrismith train ...

... THE TRAINING OF PUPIL TEACHEWS. SPEECH BY THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. s Yesterday afternoon His Graceo the Dule of I Devonshire opened at Sheffield a new Pupil- r Teachers' Centre, erected by the School Board. 9 The Rev. F. G. Sandford, chairman of the Bcard, presided, and amongst those present were -The Arhlabishop of York, the Lord 3Iayor of Sheffielti, the Master Cutler, the Recorder, the ...

... AiR CARNEGIE AT DUMFRIES. I Freedom of the Burgh. Mr Andrew Carnegie and Mrs Carnegie visited Dunfries yesterday on the occasion of the laying n of the foundation-stono of the Free Library for a Druniries and Maxwelitown, for -which he has P iven 10,C00. In recognition of 'his munifienice 31: Carnegie had been offered the freedom of the burgh, and the cornferring of this compliment v formried ...

... GERSAN Cose.arcAvsox-The German Evan- gelical congregation in Glasgow held the first of a series of social meetings last Friday even- I ing in the Christian Institute, when an enjoy- 'able evening was spent. There was a large ' nrtherine. The minister of the congregation, ?? t. Mluncbmeyer, introduced Herrn Kandidaten G. Sander, who delivered an in- teresting lecture on Pestalozzi. the fricnd ...

... LA UNCH.ES A-VD TRIAL TRIPS. On Saturday afternoon there was launched from the shipbuilding and engineering works of Messrs John Scott & Co., Kinghorn, a.beauti- fully-modelled paddle steamer to the order of the Galloway Saloon Steam Packet Company, Leith. The vessel is 170ft. long by 24ft. broad by 7ft. gin. depth, moulded to the main deck, and has been biuilt under the superbitendence of Mr ...