... TUESDAY, October 10: Boer ultimatum received' at bhe 001011io Office et 64 a~m. British reply sent. WEDNESDAY, October 11: Period of forty-eight hours given by the ultimatum ex- pired five p.m. Pretoria time (3-6 p.m, English time). THURSDAY, October 12: Boer troops enter Natal in three columns. Armoured train derailed by the enemy at etfeking. Lieutenant Nesbitt mad fifteen men captured. ...

... TLE ARCRBI8HO0 OF YORK ON THE I' PA.SSING CLOJUD.R i THE SJAMBETF DECISIONi DEFBFIK!J. The Arohbishop of York, in his tdvent pastoral to the clergy of his diocese, deals a: length with the situation arising out of the Ritualist cont:at versy in the Church, as affected by the decision &O the archi-episcopal tribunal at Lambeth. qliS (ravo expresses thankfulness, in vwhich he asks the clergy r ...

... CHRISTMAS3 1899. TIm procession of time has brought us once more into the Christmas season, in whose solemnities and hilarities we are invited to join. The solemn aspects of the subject are very serious ; for, if there had been no Birth there would have been no Death, no Resurrec- tion, no Ascension. Patriarchs and prophets would have predicted in vain ; and types and shadows and ceremonials ...

... BELFAST NE'rS-.LETTEr' OFFiCI;, thi 435. STRAN.\D LONDON. W.C. TUESDAY Morning, Six o'eloak. T II E NV AR. K TUJGELA BATTLE DE- SCPRIBED. EIGHT HOURS FIGHTING. IL h ?? ~GENRAL FENi!CH: ?? f.L 1'I EVAICUATION 01 VAAL hOP. --a Li SIR C. WARRENN LE'AVES FOR\ TilE F RON TC -- D . FRE.RE. CAMP. Dec. 1'5. The forces under General Clery, Gen or ii 3art. d Genera2 Hfldard, General Barton, and ...

... LIFEBOAT DISASTER ON SUFFOLKJ COAST. I SEVERAL LIVES LOST. The Press Association Aldeburgh correspondent telegraphs that a disastrous lifeboat accident oc- curred here yesterday, involv~ing, it is feared, the loss of six lives. The celebrated lifeboat Aldeburgh was launched yesterday morning in response to signals of distress, and while crossing the shoals in a heavy sea the life-saving craft ...

... |BENEV OLENTl SOCIETY OFS I xST. AN DREW. LANNUAL DINNER IN BELFAST. The annual dinner of the Belfast Benevolent So- ciety of St. Andrewr was held last evening in the :Grand Central Hotel. The president, Mir. George M b'Udo~wie, occupied the chair, and there wias a ,large attendance, the guests at the higher table be- .il ?? Henderson, J.P. ; Messrs. William ,Jo'ton, M.P.; G. WV. Wol70ff, MU.D ...

... mI NEARLY 8,009 OFFICERS AND MEN, LONDON, SUNDAY NIGHT -The Press Associt tion ?? the publication of our casualty list on December 12th the approximate total of losses to the British field force in South Africa has been augmented to a deplorable extent. For the serious additions to an already formidable list the reverses suffered by Lord Metheun at Magersion- tein, General Buller at Colenso, ...

... (ESTABLISHEiJ ANGO 1737,) Otcast >5 e TOO-atalt~ ?? ?? . BELFAST. THURSDAY, DECEMIBER 28, 189D. It is reported that plague is raging i N ew {Caledonia. Benjamin Ward was killed yesterday in a quarrel near Dudley. The schooner Sea Belle, of Inverness, has been wrecked near Berwick. Four steamers went aground yesterday in the Clyde owing to the dense fog. The dock labourers of Goole struck work ...

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... TYROM? COIJNIY COUf?CIL. The business of this council wfas resumed yes- terday in the council chamber of the courthouse, Omagh, his (Grace the fluke of Abercorn, K.G., presiding, and there were also ?? John Mt. Stewart, Barth, ILL. ; Mesars. H. de Fellenberg Montgomery, IlL.; J. B. Gunning-Moore, ID.L.; George 3Iuruaghan, MEP.; W. E. Dar- ragh, JYP.; H. W. Chamhr6, J.P.; T. W. D. H~umplireys, ...

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... At a meeting of the Irish Railway Reform Asso- I ciation held in the Mansion House, Dublin, on the E 20uh inst., the chairman (Mr. William Field, 1 M.P.) said he was glad to see that the question of 1 railway reform was becoming more agitated all t over the world every day, and that the opinion of N all thinking men inclined to the belief that the: a only real remedy was State ownership and ...