... The Boers, they say, lost many killed and wounded and prisoners, while, tuo English losses Were slight, though shells kasp falling freely in the town. They say there is 110 sign of Boers fiear Oolc'iso, where tho bridge is intact. Estcoiut, Thursday, 9 -Ever since day- break there has been the sonnd of heavy and continuous firing from the direction of Lady- smith. The thunder of two naval 4-7 ...

... A DESERTER FROM THE FUSILIERS. A deserter from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. James Jones by name and 23 years of age, appeared before Aid. Sanders, Mr q. H. Evans, and Mr D. Duncan at the Cardiff Police Court this morning. He was arrested yesterday at 94, Little Frederick-street, and had been missing from his regiment for some months. James sa;d be had come to Cardiff in order to give himself np. ...

... Mr Maclean, M.P., Asked to Resign. I On Wednesday evening a joint meeting of the Councils of the Conservative and Liberal Unionist Associations of Cardiff was held at the Cardiff Conservative Club to consider the action of the borough msmber, Mr J. M. Maclean, M.P., in relation to the Government. Mr J. P. Ingledew, solicitor, moved— That in view of the persistent unfriendliness of Mr Mao ...

... I Cardiff Mayoralty. I I ELECTION OF MRS. A. BRAIN. Mayor's Day at Cardiff attracted a large number of ratepayers to the Town Hall, where in the Council Chamber the smallness of the public accommodation was apparent, most of the people having to stand throughout the proceed- ings. The Mayor-elect (Mr Samuel A. Brain) has represented the Grangetown Ward for 14 years, and as since the ...

... SAD DROWNING CASE IN. THOMPSON'S PARK. CHILD'S BODY FOUND IN A FOUNTAIN I A sad drowning fatality occurred at Thomp- son's Park, Canton, early this morning, the victim being a little boy only two years and five months old named Alfred Henry Rice, whose parents reside in Fern-street, Canton. It appears from the statement of William Sullivan, the park keeper, that on arrival at thu park at 9.50 ...

... I A. CHEMIST HEAVILY FINED. Thomas Vilbrow, unqualified chemist, was fined £ 40 at Wolverhampton on Wednesday for selling nitre and .pawspricliMJt.'tf .Wlbstwice fle- ...

... Nan Nicer, Landrail, and A=;t=rie bar? gone to the stud. One of the best looking and most prnmisin? two year olds now at Newmarket is Mahdi, by Kriar s BalsFLm-IFoletta. If Mahdi comes on well during the winter he may turn out to be a promis- ing Derby outsider. The Two Thooaand is his first engagement as a three year old and he is I im the Nswmarfcet Stakes. Sir Edgar Vincent, the new M.P. ...

... ANCIENT AMERICA AND HER CIVILISATION. CIVILISATION. At the usual meeting of the Universal Brother- hood organisation at 17. Working-street, on Tuesday evening, papers were read on the antiquity of civilisation in America. It was shown that vases which had been discovered under the guano deposits in the islands off Peru proved civilisation to have existed there at least 72,000 years B.C. Quite ...

... THE TORY CRISIS IN . LIVERPOOL - - SETTLLNG THE RASH OF THE WORKING MEN. A special mieting f the Liverpool Working- mens -ConseDnive Aoation was hel last evening at No. 2, Sir Thomas-street, the circular stating- It is very urgent that all branches of the association should be represented at this meeting, as matters deeply concerning the asso- ciation iwill -be discussed. Alderman A. T. ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORR1ESPONENT. LONDON, TUErSDAY Nisen. The City's annual circus procession took place to-day, in glorious weather and through densely thronged'streets. Though each year's Lord Mayor's show is a tolerably close repeti- tion of its predecessor, London turns out in its masses to stare at it, in the hope, per- baps, of finding something new, and, perhaps, by way of recognising a ...

... - omiCOF LIVERPOOL. ,02. OFrIEE LI' lvv. __ __ rr, _: ?? all fai- Ended readers t -i 5i-i'C~i O tl9dea:aration g ?? ard Archdeacon Mladden ?? ue'car ' *^ concur in t-e view 4t 0 ,o; . ouesionyou lately dis- ae hea,'. Uu' fc readers of your f wvho ore acquated with the wo-i aruee ?? the arch- -@ .\it g your ob-eationfl un- . On the whole, your N er ?? shlrowed a true e5 ^ 'e poC i!G' of ...

... NEW MAP OF THE S-EAT OF WAR. , 'RAIWAYS ROADS BOUNDARIES -. -. g. . ?m M? MR m m = m 'm m m m a In IN Now E-S n is POSITION NATAL. BRITISH ADVANCE, MOVEMENT FROM ESTCOURT THE RECENT FIGHTING. CONFIRMATION BRITISH VICTORIES INVASION OF CAPF COLONY BOEM RELNFORCED. (BY A MILIARY CORRESPONDEIT.) London, Wednesday Night. Throughout to-day more detailed aceounts of the fight at Grobler's Kloof have ...