... FATAL RESULTS. A shocking explosion occurred on Monday morn- mg at the Rochdale Road Gasworks of the Man- chester Corporation. A new meter house has lately been erected at the works, and the work of transferring the plant from the old meter house to the new one was in progress. At a quarter past eleven the men employed at the works were startled by a loud report of an explosion. The manager, ...

... DEATH IN CHURCH. A painful sensation was caused at the Congre- gational Church, Andover, on Sunday. Mrs. Brown, wife of Mr. H. Brown, of Victoria Park, while attending an infiut baptismal ordinance after the ordinary service was taken suddenly ill and died before medical aid could be procured. The de- ceased was a middle-aged lady. ...

... Splendid Book ot Views of Rhyl and District to be had of Amos Brothers, 13, But3 T Street. ...

... JiOVeVncwth every form of air, [ And every shape of earth, And comes, unbidden, everywhere, Like thought's mysterious birth. The moonlit sea and the sunset sky Are written with love's words, And you hear his voice unceasingly, Like song, in the time of birds. He peeps into the warriors heart, From the tip of a stooping plume, And the serried spears, and the many men, May net deny him room. ...

... FOOTBALL I rES AND JOTTINGS. THE CHLEL.] A Cf manar ye takia' notes, Ar ae'll prent it. COMBINi N RESULTS TO DATE. Goals Pla. j Won. Lost. Dr'n. For Agst. Pts Wrexham 6 5 0 1 ,.29 9 ..11 7 5 1 1 ..16 6 ..11 Druids 7 5 1 1 ..16 7 8 Newtowu 7 3 4 0 ..16 ..21 6 Oswestry Un. 7 2 4 1 ..14 ..15 5 Birkenbead. 3 2 1 0 2.. 3 4 Aberystwyth •5 1 3 1 6 ..16 3 Bangor 3..1..2..0..3..5..2 Llandudno S. 6 0 ...

... HYL AND THE WAR FUND. TOWN'S MEETING AT RHYL. A GENEROUS RESPONSE. On Friday evening an influentially attended public meeting, convened by Mr A. L. Clews, J.P. (chairman of the Rhyl Urban District Council), was held at the Council Chamber, Town Hall, Rhyl, for the purpose of opening a local fund in aid of the sufferers by the Transvaal War. Mr Clews presided, and in his opening remarks said ...

... INTERESTING WOODEN WALL The Ganges, which was built at Bombay eighty years ago, and is one of the few remaining rep- resentatives of the wooden walls of England, has been towed from Sheesness to Harwich to en'ter on a new term of service as training-ship for boys at that port, the Admiralty having re- cently decided to station a training-ship at Harwich for the accommodation of boys re- ...

... Edward Field, four years of age, of I, Victoria Street, Gerard's Bridge, St. Helens, died in the St. Helens Hospital on Saturday night from the effects of burns received on Friday night. The boy was playing with a lighted candle and his clothes were ignited. He was badly burned all ever the body, and Dr. Challenor, who was called in, ordered his removal to the hospital, where he afterwards ...

... In the past seventy years over 400,000 ie. of railway have been completed in the British Empire. ...

... Amos Brothers, Wholesale and Retail Stationers, Sussex Street, have jast received a large consignment of commercial stationery which they retail at wholesale prices ...

... During a harvest thanksgiving service at St Nicholas's Church, Boston, an extraordinary scene occurred. While the offertory was being taken, Miss Dring, a well-known member of the congregation, walked up the aisle to the Litany desk, opened the service book and bowed her head in prayer. Then she went to the altar, and seizing a bunch of grapes, put them in a silver almsdish and offered them to ...

... News brought by the Volta of the Elder Dempster line, shows that on September 21st about four thousand natives made a descent on the coast town of Kribi. Kribi is the German settle- ment further south than the Cameroons River, but contains both German and English facfories. The whites with the aid of their native employes met the invaders. Before getting down to Kribi the natives had burnt ...