... Bio DROP IN BACON AND HAMS at all the Direct Trading Company's Branches. 4339—1155e IR, DAvmo give PonasW attention to all bmyeFB of T ...

... DANGEROUS ACETYLENE. FRENCH CHATEAU WRECKED. Brussels, Monday.—An explosion of acety- lene, due to an escape, occurred yesterday even- ing at a chateau at Flemallex Haute, occupied bf M. de Pierpont. who had established an aocty- lene reservoir in a smalt tower of his chateau. The concierge and Madame de Pierpont entered the ylace with a lamp, whereupon the escaped acety- leneexploded. The ...

... 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 ...

... HOOPS AND WHEELS. A BICYCLE lUCY. FOR LIFE. V) bicycles leaning together on an arid, ileeless, rolling plain; a few tufts of scattered no human being, or beast, or bird in perfect stillness ami early afternoon un- ,r a sun that blazed when- never a cloud bad for wopk. Even insects had perished drought in that desoation-so any one ^Sht hare imagined bad any one been gazing 'it ou thai- ...

... 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 ...

... CHILDREN'S HOUR, AND ORDER OF THE ROUND TABLE By LADY GREENSLEEVES. Lord Mayor's Day. Thursday, you know, was the Ninth of Novem- ber. Some of you perhaps think that a less remarkable day than the Fifth, but you will con- nect it with one special event, and do not forget that it is Mayor-cboosing day. Many of you also remember that it is the Prince of Wa^es s birthday, but it has been a Lord ...

... et A full;,izf d hottle will be f CarrLage Paid, on r4eceipt of London, .c ^tisntfss Auitrssses. A SHOP ASSISTANT AND Ko iiuroauciion in usceesiw? U lliC remarkable testimonial of Mr W. Arpinall, of 12, Mardi Kt>.nk-ro&d, Sketmorsdal^, near Ormshirb. It cnnr'ively proves that Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoifc is war excellence the Food Beverage for Breakfast aud Supper M. •. I have been dringing C.. V. ...