... 1 --f- ?? w''a 1? ? 'I ?? C4?5wrzl, I c I FRIDAY, DEcEv= 1, IS99. An incomplete list of the casualties that occurred in the fighting at Modder River was received at the War Office yester- day. The list does not include the casual- ties of the Ninth Brigade. Lord Methuen is among the wounded, being shot in the fleshy part of the thigh. No further particulars have been received. * On the eastern ...

... 1THE LONNDON CATTLE SHOW. Sweeping Successes of the Queen and Royal Family. (mOM OUR SPECLkf CofrEsroNSDE5T.) London, Monday Night. I went so fully into the general featnres of the *how which opened at Islington this morn- ing that, with so much that is worth saying I about tha competitiwn in the different sections, I reed not waste any time on prelitminaries, and will mnerely say that the ...

... ANTI-BRITISH FEELING IN I FRANCE. The Insults to the Queen. (rB'xs TLECEGAS.) Paris, December 2. The President of the British Chamber 0o Commerce in Paris, in a letter to the Matin, refers to the differences existing between Eng- land and France and to the attacks on the person of the Queen, which have caused such strong feeling in England. After dwelling upon the chivalrous instincts of ...

... TME ApMOURED ICilUISERS. i L IpU i I s Description of H.M.S. Cressy. To-day the Fairfield Engineering and Ship- building Company (Limited) will launch ELM.S. Cresu, the first of the two armoured cruisers of 12,000 tons displacement they are building for the British Governmnent. The vessel represents an improvement on the Diadems, two of which- the Diadem and the Argonaut-were built by t the ...

... CLACKMANNAN MiCETION. Mr Youngers Candidature, Mr George Y~onnger, the 'Unionist candidate, I 0 addressed three meetings in the western part a of the constituency on Saturday. The first was h held at Cambusskenneth Abbey. The meeting Vc took place in the Schoolroom and the audience, It] iwhich numbered 30 persons, was presided over by Provost Hunter. The Chairman, in intro- ducing the ...

... ITHE ROYAL,,WATER-COLOQUR : -, th y . | ?? (nea OtVf srECtDL CO ISPONDENT.) The 38th winter exhibition of the Old Water- Colour Society, as many of its admirers prefer to calLit, will not ?? on the records of its carsor. It.cannot be claimed that the war has interfvrad with its preparation, un- less, indeed, it sufers from the fact that the Right Hon. Joseph iChamberlain, jon. member, has ...

... spE C1AL EDITIONi HERxALD OFFIC, 6.30 A2.M I LATfEST, WAI [bNEWS. s,1'iUATION AlT M.AFEKING. 7r Days' Fighting at Kuruman. (T'-IMEs TELEGRAMS.I \v! ?? 27, by runner, via * '.-alapve December 2. cor iinun to invest M1afeking, but rale rindio visits intio the back I ?? o ankng nyattack upon ?? t tiat thc Boer-i attacked Kurm- 7nC!-ed~'( aft~tr three days' fighting. jlinianrtan. link in our ...

... TiE QUEEN AND THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGNER&. (m uT COUBT Cubona.) Windsor, Thursday. The Queen and Princess Henry of Battenberg drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Ethel Cadogan- Sir Charles Scott, Her Majesty's Ambassador at St Petersburg, and Lady Scott, and Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote, arrived at the Castle, and had the honour of dining with the Queen. Colonel Hatton, ...

... THE 7RAILWAY ANTD CANAL I COhIMISS1xIcNns. The Te'ephone Cuesa;ion. IA sitting of the Railway anC Caral Ccni'nh. siaces was held yesterday -itinl the Court of Session, Edinburgh, for th1o pnrpcse o 'r.rtile considering ths dfferenee whichI has aches be- tween the Postmaster-GenerSl and the Cor-ora- tion of Elinburgh in connection with the reouest of the former-for the la'ter's consent to thle ...

... I:AGRCULTURE. THE LONDON CATTLE SHOW. ga ic I ._ 1L ! Success of Her Majesty and ?, La Scottish Exhibitors. 6; hi (FROMf A BPECIAL CoRtESFONtDENT.) h7 London, December 6. pc The two most notable features in connection with the carcase competition, which entered at upon its penultimate stage to-day, has been the el5: continued success of Her Majesty the Queen a and of other Scottish exhibitors ...

... Esasi Qyr msI 6.30, A.M.- THE LONDON PRESS ON TRIPLE ALLIANCE. The 'Times, commenting on Mr Chamberlain's ipeetli at Leicester yesterday, says :-We have no abjection to urge against what is, we are confident, Ur Chamberlains real meaning. At the same time thu Propesition, as stated by him without .ef rence to the limitations he doubtless had in ),n mind. may, we fpar, lead to some mis- ...

... THR-C, TITUTLOI:ON.- Tsar I ICaLYDE TRUST. Conference with Ratepayers. A conference on the proposed alteration of the constitution of the Clyde Trust was held. yesterday between a committee of the Trustees and a committee of the Ratepayers, who have petitioned in favour of additional representa- tion on the Trust. We understand that a free interchange of views took place, and that the: ...