... At Preston on Monday Maria Hunter, forty- eight, was charged at the instance of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty* to Children with having grossly neglected her five children, all of whom are illegitimate. The evidence showed that the children when ex- amined by Dr. Byrne were almost bloodless and shockingly filthy. A man named Lang ad- mitted that he was the father of the ...

... The second shell that the Boers fired in the action killed Colonel Stopford. Hs was hit in the neck. His funeral, beside one of the Modder village gardens, was impressive ceremony. His men of the 2nd Coldstream Guards gathered flowers, and made wreaths to lay on his grave. Major the Marquis of Winchester, who now succeeds to Colonel Stopford’s command, acted as chief mourner to his dead ...

... ,A, bbp,5g. Y PROFFESWR ANWYL AR ADDYSG YN NGEYMRU. WRTIE siarad yn Llanidloes, yr w3thnos ddiwedd- af, mown eyfarfod cyasylltiedig a'r Ysgolion SiroJ, ilongyfarchodd y Proffeswr Anwyl bawb oedd yn dwyn cyssylltiad Wr ysgolion ar en hadeiladau prydIferth. a dyywedodd ei fod yn gobeithio y byddai i bawb gymmeryd balchder personol yn- ddynt (cymmeradwyaeth). Gan ei bod yn un o lawer o yagolion ...

... T REFO R. YFeibl &ymdcithas.-Nos Ferches, bu y Pareh. D. (. Edwards yn darllthio, ar ran y gymdelthas nuhod, yn Gosen ( oI.). Cymmorwyd y gadair gan y Parch R. Huebes ?? Dayllenodd yr ysgrifenydd (Mr. T. Hughes), gyfrif-in y gangen leol. Rhoddodd Mr. Hughes eyfrif hynod 0 fanwl 0 holl amgylchiadan y gymdeithrs. AC yna, galwyd ar Mr. Edwards i inerch y aoymrfod, a thraddododd yutau araetb hynod ...

... As the result of further boring at Ropersole, between Dover and Canterbury, another seam of coal was passed through on Saturday. The Beam is 6in. thick and of excellent bituminous quality. This makes the third thin seam dis- covered at this boring. From fossiliferous evidence it is believed that the boring is passing through the upper coal measures. If so, the carboniferous strata must ...

... At the Ulster Winter Assizes on Saturday, before the Lord Chief Baron, Patrick Campbell, seventeen, who pleaded guilty to having at- tempted to upset a train on the Donegal Rail- way, by placing a number of posts on the lines, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. His Lordship said he could not allow it to be believed that an act of that description, en- dangering the lives of people, ...

... ART PATRON AND PHILANTHROPIST. One of London's greatest benefactors passed away on Tuesday morning in the person of Sir Henry Tate, the veteran philanthropist and merchant prince. Sir Henry, who was the son of a clergyman, was born at Chorley, in Lancashire, in 1819. He made his fortune as a sugar refiner in Liverpool, where he became the head of an important ftrm-Henry Tate and Sons. The ...

... TITS POreAns QO1 A WE=T OWO ' -; .AD' -OP 311N3''~m., ,, : .IA the Queen's. B Bei NDivisian, before Mr' Justice Bruce and a speial jury, the ation' tof PIekegi k. Jonels came on orhearing on -cl2 - 4 -r LI& TeiToans ?? d .mraira -:Mi sh 's is were for the p£oir t 'Mfr Henry PiekemgWil, 'builder, lorern VZfla , S Sadenlem; m- an n r. Wala, ?? oe, 3& ?? IC &k t b and Mr 0. B. Marriott were for ...

... I MA9CWhNiA DOF I~~~~ la ac !IL 3m. lie ae Elic d( yi tv Td, fj g U YD. LERPWL, dydd Gwener. - Yr oedd y girenith yn gadarnach, a miry o ofyn, am brisiau lc yu uwch na dydd Alawrth. Cali-- fornian, ls l'e i Gs 2c; Duluth, 5s Illc i 6s; Northern spring, 5s 1Wec. Beans, Saidi, 27s Go i 27s Dc. Pys, heh newid, 5s 5c 5s i os 51c. Ceirch, gwyyn, 2s 4c i 2s (;c; melyn it du, ''s 2c i '2s 3e. Maize, ...

... The true reward of a workman is not his wages, but the consciousness of having done a eood iob. ...

... Sir Edward Fry, who sat as arbitrator in the Law Courts: recently to decide questions which had arisen between the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company (Limited) and the Amalgamated Pneu- matic Tyre Companies (Limited), has delivered his award in favour of the Dunlop Company. A license was granted by that company in Feb- ruary, 1896, to the Beeston Pneumatic Tyre Company (Limited) to make the tyres ...

... RB&BITBRBD AT THE GENEBAL POSY OFFICE AS A NEWSPAPER. RHAGFYR 13EG, 1899. Digwyddiada Yr Wyithnol CARTREFOL. YN ei araeth nos Fercher, yn Nghlwb y ?? yn Peterborough, dywedodd Arglwydd SriNcER rai pethau bachog ac amserol ar y ?? o fod gwladweinyddion mewn swyddau yn y wlad hon yn ym- ollwng i draethu pethau angharedig, ac ensynio pethau ammheus am wledydd eraill, a ninnau mewn heddwch A hwynt ...