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... Smallpox following hard on famine hag, according to the latest news from Mombasa, been making fearful ravages in the Giriyana country, British East Africa, the natives dying in thousands. The Queen has approved of the appointment of the Right Hon. Horace Plunkett, M.P., to be Vice-President of the Department of Agri- culture and other Industries and Technical Instruction for Ireland. Laundries ...

... ST. ASAPH PETTY SESSIONS. Monday: Before Dr. Easterby (in the chair), Dr. A. E. Davies, Messrs Peter Roberts, R. C. Enyon, and W. H. Coward. PGACIUXG CASES. Daniel Davies, Plas Copeley, St. Asaph, and Jostph Lloyd, Plag-yn-Rhos Cottages, were charged by J hn Calvert, with having on the 7th ult., been on land in pursuit of conies.—Mr E. A. Crabbe, prosecuted. Mr Crabbb said that the defendants ...

... f fIT-BITS. THE BOY GUESSED RIGHT.— My friends were the average man to turn and look himself squarely in the eyes, and ask himself what he really needed most, what. would be the reply? A rubber neck! shouted the perecocious urchin from the rear of the room. THE BABY ITS OWN THERMOMETER.— I wish, Susan, that when you give baby a bath von would use the thermometer so as 'to ascer- tain ...

... During the final stages of the meet of the North Cheshire Hunt at Bradfield Green on Tuesday some rough country was negotiated near Middlewich. Captain Higson, of Oakmere Hall, Northwich, who was out for the first time this season, had jumped a fence, when his horse fell, pinning him beneath it. His shoulder-blade was dislocated, and he re- mains under medical treatment. ...

... At Bolton Police Court, on Saturday, James Patterson, jobbing bricklayer, 2, Albion Court, was again charged with the manslaughter of Ellen Newport, a woman with whom he had been living. In face of the verdict of the coroner's jury and the statement by the doctor that death was due to in- flammation of the lungs, and in no way attribut- able to the wound on the head, he was discharged. ...

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... WIT AND HUMOUR. Caller: ft Is the master of the house in ? Proud Father: Yes, he's asleep upstairs in his crib. Browne: Is he nursing his disappointment ? Towne he seems to be trying it on the: bottle. Caller Is Mrs. Smith at home ? Servant; No mum. Caller: Are you quite sure ? Servant: Yis, mum. She towld me so herself, mum. An Irish poacher, up before a magistrate, made this defence:—u ...

... The Gladstone statue at Blackburn, erected at a cost of £1,800 by public subscription, was un- veiled on Saturday afternoon by the Earl of Aberdeen. The statue, which weighs about four tons and stands 10ft. high, is the work of Mr. John Adams, Acton, and the attitude of the figure is the characteristic one of the late statesman of upraised hand when about beginning to speak. In an address his ...

... Lord Dufferin was on Saturday elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University by 943 votes as against Ir. Asquith's 686. Throughout the poll and upon its declaration there were extraordinary scenes. In the quadrangle, faction collided with faction and fought for two hours. Lady students de- fended the Liberal standard in the centre of the turmoil while the Unionists tied their flag to a fountain, ...

... Dr. Goodall, medical superintendent of Car- marthen Asylum, has made a mental examina- tion of John Beddoe, twenty-four, of the Glamorgan Artillery, who will he tried at the assizes at Carmarthen on a charge of murder- ing a fellow-gunner named William Hammett at Fort Hubberston, Milford Haven, on July 5th. Seeing that some of the accused's near relatives were certified lunatics, the question ...

... FOOTBALL NOTES AND JOTTINGS. [By The Chiel.] A Chiel's amang ye takia' notes, And faith he'll prent it. COMBINATION RESULTS TO DATE. Goals Played. Won. Lost. Dr'n. For Asst. Pts Wrexham 6 5 0 1 ..29 9 ..11 Druids 6 4 1 1 ..14 7 9 6..4..1.. 1 ..11 4 9 Oswestry Un. 6 2 3 1 ..13 ..12 5 Birkenbead 2 2 0 0 2 1 4 Newtown 5 2 3 0 ..12 ..18 4 Bangor 3 1 2 0 3 5 2 Aberystwyth 4 0 3 1 4..16 1 ...