... The monthly meeting of the Prestatyn School Board was held at fhe Clerk's Offices, Stafford Chambers, Prestatyn, on Wednesday. There were present Mr G. O. Jones (Chairman), Rev F. Jewell (Vice-chairman), Mr Peter Ellis, the Clerk, Mr John Hughes, and the School Attendance Officer, Mr Parry. THE TBANSFBBENCE OF THE BRITISH SCHOOLS. At a special meeting a communication was re- ceived from the ...

... OBEYING OliDEES. Mistress: Bridget, I can't get into the parlour. Bridget: Sure it's mesilf knows that an' ye tvoii't ftir Ihave the kty in iiie pocket Mistress Open the door immediately Bridget Will you go in if I do ? Mistress Certainly I will Bridget Then ye don't get the kay. Mistress Open the door immediately. What do yoti mean Bridget: Sure it's by your orders! Ye said yesterday, ...

... DROWNING COINCIDENCE. At Camlough, co. Armagh, and Buncrana, Donegal, two farmers named Murphy and Deeham, were on Saturday night drowned through stumbling into small streamlets in the neighbourhood of their residences. The former was drowned in about eight inches of water. Beside the latter was a half pint bottle. ...

... The Royal Mail Company's steamer Severn has been chartered by the government to convey stores, &c., to the Cape. Paul llournnon, tlie well-known French cyclist, has been admitted by the Paris Conservatoire as a tenor and Charles Dani, formerly a well-known Italian cyclist, who will be remembered from the fact of his having once defeated Zimmerman at Florence, has just been engaged as leading ...

... On Sunday evening the body of an elderly named Dumphy was found in the kitchen of a house in Peel Street, Belfast. The head was terribly smashed, and the body bore other evidence of murderous vielence. Later in the evening the police arrested the husband and a grown-up sou of the dead woman, and charged them with her murder. ...

... PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR. SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. At an inquest held at San Francisco on a Russian named Ivan Demiswiteh, two of his fellow-countrymen testified that he was a wealthy man professing Nihilistic views, and that he had been chosen by lot from among the members of a Nihilist organisation, to which he belonged, to go to St. Petersburg to assassinate the Czar. He had not complied with the ...

... A SWINDLER SWINDLED. II Hungry Joe waa one of the most notorious swindlers in New York, and on one occasion he gob bold of a good subjcct in a ranchman from Texas named Benjamin Ashley, who was on his way to England. Joe got 4,000 dols. out of Ashley at poker. As Aehley bad to go to Europe somehow or the other, he offered to give Joe and his partner a mortgage on his ranch for 4,000 dola. ...

... Lord Emly has been deprived of his magistracy for his advocacy of the Labour cause and refusing to deny, qualify, or explain his speech to a labour meeting at Killmallock. Mr. Kendal O'Brien (Nationalist), chairman of the Tipperary County Council, has been removed from the magistracy by the Lord Chancellor for moving a resolution congratulating the Boers on their victory at Glencoe over the ...

... While the late Lady Salisbury's father never consented to sit in the House of Commons, he once canvassed Newark for the Conservative can- didates. Baron Alderson professed himself amazed at the extravagant quackery of the Liberal canvassers, who included fifty virgins with flower baskets. The letter in which he made this allusion was smilingly recalled by his daughter when first she was ...

... About two o'clock on Monday morning the Hull steam trawler Sparta, owned by Charles » Hellyer and Co., Hull, which was returning to Hull with a valuable cargo of fish caught east of Gullive, ran ashore in a fog four miles south of Filey, on the Yorkshire coast, Captain Griffin and the mate, whose name is stated as Walters, and boatswain, got into the ship's boat for the purpose of taking an ...

... About midnight on Saturday a terrible acci. dent occurred at a house in Garden Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, occupied by a family named Crewe, All had gone to bed excepting a child named Roseline, aged about twelve years, and the mother. A lamp was hanging from the ceiling, and it appears that the girl stood on a table, and blew down the glass to extinguish the light. An explosion followed, ...

... I am certain sir the so called economists will tremble at the heading of this short article, but they need not alarm themselves, it will not end in a trip even to Gronant. As a visitor I like to pass away an avening no matter what the object of a meeting is; being from a town where there is something to draw one's attention each night it is only natural one feels inclined to attend all kinds ...