... GENERAL GATACRE PREPARING. SOLDIERLY ADDRESS TO HIS MEN. (Central News Telegram.) Queenstown (Cape Coionv), Sunday Evening. -All the troops assembled at church parade to- day, and General Gatacre, who is in chief com- mand in this district, took advantage of the occasion to address a few words of advice and encouragement to the officers and men. He said the enemy whom they were to meet was not ...

... PONTNEWYNYDD. New Public Fountain.—A handsome new drinking fountain, which has cost X170, has been erecter, opposite the Wesleyan Chapel, Pont- newynydd. It bears the foilowing inscription Erected by the residents, ratepayers, and property owners iu the Poutnewynvdd Ward, and presented to the Abersychan U.D.C., for the use of the public, 1899. Edward Jones, J.P., D.L. Mr B. Nicholas, J.P., D ...

... LECTURE BY MR T. H. THOMAS. Mr T. H. Thomas, of Cardiff, delivered a lec- ture on Tuesday evening beforo the members of the Barry Literary and Social Society on Pre- Norman Monuments of Glamorgan. Captain Hamilton Murrell presided over a good attend- ance. In the course of his remarks, Mr Thomas gave some idea of the riches which this county possessed in monuments of a very, early epoch, made ...

... BATTLE ON THE MODDER. -LORD METHUEN'S SIGNIFI- CANT DESPATCH. (BY A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.) (Press Association Telegram.) London, Wednesday Night.—There is almost a tragic significance in the despatch received at the Wetr Office to-day from Lord Methuen. When A general describes an engagement in his first brief message as one of the hardest and most trying fights in the annals of the British ...

... Mr A. J. Adkins, tfhose persisent advocacy of the establishment of a Court of Criminal Appeal has won for him some notoriety, came before Mr Francis, at the Lambeth Police Court on Satur- day, in a new role. He said he wished to speak to his Worship with reference to his SOl;, Tommy Adkins. who was now under bombardment at Ladysmith and surrounded by Boers. TSeinz represented there by flesh ...

... SEVERE FIGHTING AT MAFEKING. ,BRITISH BAYONET CHARGES. KILLED & WOUNDED OFFICERS' NAMES. LADY SMITH. CENTRE OF INTEREST j AND ANXIETY. LONG TOM IN ACTION. WATCHING THE BOM- BARDMENT. MORE TRANSPORTS ARRIVE. The War Office issued yesterday re- ports showing that a series of engagements has taken place near Mafeking, and that the British have inflicted heavy losses on the Boers. Among the ...

... TO COMBINE AGAINST ENGLAND. A BERLIN RUMOUR. CZAR'S ALLEGED DESIGN. Berlin, Monday Evening.—According to the Lokttianziegcr, the Czar desires to bring about a European coalition against England's overpower- ing supremacy at sea. His view is that England has some deep design of aggression in mind, for it is thought to be obvious that her present vast naval preparations cannot be due merely to ...

... CARDIFF. ? Social Evil.—Mary Ann Elswortby (41) ko'bl,ged on a warrant with keeping a disorderly Angelina-street, on November 11th. 45, Cifrar8e waa proved, and defendant was lined th y Welsh (29) wss charged with assisting 6(5 Management of the house. Several previ- Convictions stood to the discredit of the pri- **0 ih Wk° was ^ned ^20 and coets Li default imprisonment. 'Und rr'ed Sent to ...

... WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AND THE CHIEF, REGISTRAR BY MABON, M.P. The Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies.has issued his report on Friendly Societies, work- men's compensation schemes, industrial and provident societies and trades Unions for the year ending 31st December, 1898. Particulars of work done under the Workmen's Compensa/iou Act, 1897, are inclnded. for the first time. This Act ...

... CASTING NETS. fn some portions of Germany no one can marry Who has not a certain sum of money. If the wonld-be bride and bridegroom together cannot swear that they have savings to a certain amount, and cannot show proof of the truth of the state- ment, they must remain single and nobody con- Biders this law a hard ona but the lovers them- selves. So thrifty are the people that parents are ...

... William Ashworth was remanded at Oldham on Monday charged with attempting to murder Emma Siddall, a barmaid with whom he had kept company. He viaited her at the Freemasons' Arms on Saturday. She told him to go away, but he returned later and, it is alleged, stabbed her in the neck. ...

... Dr BRIDGWATEB M D U.S.A 18, Castom House-street, Cardiff Hours—11-4 and 7-9 COALS per ton for cash on delivery. Splendid ▼alue. Good quality. Red large 18s, cobbles 17s, nuts 16s, kitchener 16s. Half tons Is per ton extra.— Shields, Crwys Coal Yard-Cardiff. 77e WHY Go to the expense of making your own Christmas puddings when ours only cost you Is per pound (moulds included}.—Steven?, titd., ...