... French Superstition. EXTRAORDINARY FRAUDS. I A Gang of Sorcerers. The Morning Post's 1 aris correspondent tele- graphs :—M. ColiviJJier, Commissary oi Police at Charenton, has arrested a gang of pretended sorcerers, who in less then a twelvemonth have relieved credit!ousi nha-bitants of his district of oover lOO.OOOfcs. The chief of tbe gang, certain Jean Sorino, known as ,tha brass man, was ...

... HOCKEY, IJADAFFFFS Y' KO:L,ADS_TO BE P^YED OH THE \v^bSrrSv^ff K^e' Vie? v; Puatypridd.—This match -r?'eu 0D the Pontypridd ground. on thS^ounfiCar(i,fi Wia Play a tr'endl> match on ...

... [CARDIFF CALEDONLANS. A? DINNER.- ;- I . . INTERESTING SPEECH BY MP7. JUSTICE BUCKNIILL. HIS LORDSHIP'S DRAWBACK AS A JUDGE. 'St, Andrew's Nicht falling on Thursday, the members and friends of the Cardiff Cale, donian Society irn the evening held their annual banquet at the Park Hotel. The arrange. ments were again in the experienced hands of Mr. D. C. Salmond (hon. secretary) and Uar James ...

... SALUS POPELI LEX SUPREMA. FRI'DAY, DECEMBER 1. -0 - THIS MORNING'S NEWS IN BRIEF. The list of killed and wounded among the officers who took part in the battle of Modder River was issued last night. In the first category there were only four names, and the number of officers wounded happily does not bear out the deduction made by many authorities that the battle had been one of the most ...

... DEATH OF A LADY CYCLIST. Mrs Perry, wife of tbe Rev. W. Perry, vicar of Sandhurst, near Gloucester, fell off her bicycle on Wednesday, and died a few l our-iat-T wi:; having regained consciousness, The medic- opinion is that the fail was caused by buddeu hemorrhage of the brain. ...

... J5120 DAMAGES. Miss Emma. Jane Male, a barmaid, 25 years of age, sued Mr Henry James Halkett, a. boiler- plate rivetter, of 33,Richmond-street, Plaistow, to recover damages for breach of promise of mar- riage. The defendant denied the promise, but tended alternatively that if he did make it he bad never broken it; and further, that it was ver- bally rescinded by mutual consent on March 23rd. ...

... CARDIFF. British and Foreign Bible Society.—Tbe annual meeting of the Cardiff auxiliary of this society was held at the Town Hall on Thursday. Canon Thompson presided, and the speakers included Rev. Owen Watkins, late of the Transvaal; Rev. Archdeacon Phair, formerly in Canada; ME Lewis Williams, Mr R. Cory, Rev. Cynddylan Jones, and others. Stumbled into the Dock. — Aa William Stephens, ...

... TIlrE RAISER. - The Germ Thursday. - The G;erman ?? arrived at the Niew salliel hisnalorailig on their return from Wised ?? X~W RECORDERS. feenti hs appointed Mr Tfrehatwke -the l witfiiil to be r,.corder of liver- ,li.fbeft se of 3r Henry Clark, topn in t' ,1d Mr Samuel Hlv. Leonard to 1' Or of l'eza in the place (,f Mr t rt~ r 2,I r IKiiglake appointed ,;,ttt t l(url^nlltb. Til.b- AXINING ?? ...

... AicGjATrSE CEDUI-AS. A considerable amount of unnecessary iticasiness sennfs i.) ?? e caused by the announcement in yesterday's Timesi to the eho , lb t National Mortgage Bank of Argentina is Issuilg 815,000,060 National Cedulas. Iiefore imagiifil-g thlat disaster s are in st,, I it nii b well to wait until full particulars are forthconing as to thii . anv case there seems licthing as Net to ...

... Interest has centred this, week in TaHE WAIl. Lord Methuen's advancue on Kim- berley. His loi:h4ip. has made rapid progress, and is now only a few miles from his objective. He has been three times opposed in force-at Belmount, at Enslin (or Grassp.n), and at Modder River. At each of these points he has hit his enemy hard. oln each occasion ho has had to attack Boers who wverooccupying en- ...

... IJSECOND EDITIORN 5 Nnaw Bnn1oia STRNET, LoiSDON, AnnED=IN JOURNAL OVI.ICE, FInIDAY MOBNING, 5.3( . (BY SPECTAL WIRE.) SITUATION ON NORTH CAPE BORDER, EFFECT OF BOER LIES, BRITISH 0IHE OKING TE1M INIVASIfON, (DAILY MArI. TIEGIAM CnOrPrYErT.) Queenstowvn, Monday. 4.10 p.m. The lBoers are reported to be advancing on Dordrecht. The ldMwe and Mlfolteno Dutch are joining the Beer forces owing to ...

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