... IN FULL CRY. By RICHARD MARSH, author of The Beetle A Mystery, The Crime ana the Criminal, The Datche- Diamonds, Mrs Musgrave and her Husband, The Woman with One Hand, &e., &c. (COPYRIGHT.) CHAPTER XVII. At Dead of Night. The church clock struck two. The reverbera- ion of the second stroke died away as she opened ;r bedroom door but an inch or two. She lis- tened. All was still. She ...

... A WELSH CAPTAIN SUED FOR WAGES. At Cork Police Court Michael Dnuford, fire- j man on board the steamer Discoverer, of Cardiff sued Captain SFm. Coates, master of the vessel' for payment of £ 7 10s wages for a voyage from Baenos Ayres to Cardiff. The evidence, showed that the plaintiff had signed articles of agreement with thedeferldaiae, scipulazing to arrive at Cardiff before asking for the ...

... SHIPPING DISASTER. Twelve Hands Drowned. New York, Wednesday.—The steamer George Colwell has foundered on a voyage from Fremsui- liina to New York. Crew of 12 were drowned, the captain being the only man saved.—Renter. ...

... AND ORDER OF THE ROUND TABLE. By LADY GREENSLEEVES. The Fairy Birds. Have you ever seen a humming-bird ? Not alive it is scarcely likely that you have been so fortunate as that. But possibly you have admired one in some Museum, and if you visit the Natural History Muesum at South Kensington you will find there a long row of cases filled with different species of these lovely little creatures, ...

... INFORMATION BY RETURN POST A SUFFERER'S QUESTION ANSWERED. AT the quaint Kentish village of Bethersden. between Ashford and Tenterden, Mr A. Beale was questioned by a Kentish Express reporter respecting his extraordinary care. In March, 1898, said Mr Beale. I- I was pol- ing hopbines, wheu sciatica. at- SCIATICA. tacked me in the hip. It then flew into my ankle, rendering me helpless. I tried ...

... SUICIDE OF A PONTYPRIDD POLICEMAN'S WIFE. On Saturday evening the wife of P.C Bodger of Hopkinstown, Pontypridd, committed suicide by taking a quantity of carbolic acid. Her hus- band was at the time absent at a funeral She had complained of pain in the head, to which she had been subject, bat; had not threatened to take her life. When he returned he found her sitting in a. cnair in the ...

... Hea gawx enwog gwirionodd—yw'r gfreithiol Bregethv/r, llawn rhinwedd Gwxon byi, ac ndgorn hedd, A dawn goreu dyngarsdd. Birchgrove. GWXLYM BJDW. ...

... SWANSEA HARBOUR TRUST. The monthly meeting of the Swansea Harbour Trust was held on Monday afternoon, Mr Griffith Thomas presiding. The Chairman proposed a vote of condolence with the family of the late Mr C. L. Bath. He said he had been 11 years a member of the Trust, and during that time they had had the advantage of his great ability and experience. He belonged to a family which had been ...

... THE TRANSVAAL AND THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. A Page of Secret Hisiory. The Times publishes an interesting tetter from its Cape Town correspondent, which throw a gOvJ deal of light Oil the situa tion m the Transvaal at a time when it was generally supposed that the Republic was anxious to accept reasonable to mi of oeace. Fiona the ea £ of August, he declares, it was quit- evident at Psetoria that ...

... TERRIBLE FIRE. Five Children Lost. The Willow Tree public-house, No. 22, Bait, Pondir,oO, Dalston, was the scene of a serious ani fatal fire between four and five o'clock on Mon. day afternoon. Two little children, Florence Eruer.t Highfield, aged four and two yeaza, and an in<it unregistered, aged fcor weeks, Ed wusd and Esther Eraser, aged three and ont ycarat were left m a roc.m on the ...

... A WELSHMAN'SEXPERIENCE. 410 Miles in a Coal Truck. Pietermaritzburg, Natal, 5th Oct., 1899. This is not fiction, but ahsolnte fact, and be it remembered that the coal trucks were not cleaned, neither were they fitted with any kind of seating or sleeping accommodation Snch has been the lot of all the male and many of the female passengers leaving Johannesburg since Thursday, the 28th September ...

... THE INVASION OF NATAL JOUBERT AND THE WAR. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle (Natal), Oct. 5th, Thursday. Late last Sunday night I found myself slowly crawling towards the front from Pretoria in a commandeered train, crammed full of armed Boers and their horses. 1 had rushed from the Cape to quiet little Bioemfontein, the centre ot one of the best adoamislerecl States in the world, where ...