... TO-DAY'S NEW3. Position Summarised. A straw sometimes shows the way the wind blows, and the destruction of the Colenso-road Bridge by our artillery gives a hint as to what will be Sir Kedver Bailer's next move. On the Boathern side of the Tngela, and occupying the angle formed by that river and the Blaanw- kran's River,i-, the greatgronp of bills which form the Inhlawe Mountain. This is held ...

... I REINFORCEMENTS. I (Renter's Telef,ram.) I Melbourne, Saturday, Preparations are vigorously proceeding for the despatch of the New Victorian force to South Africa The offeis of men exceed the requirements. The contin- gents from all the Colonies will form a Federal Brigade when they reach the Cape. Owing to the numbers of doctors and nart-fj who are volan- teering the Government is ...

... TO-DAY'S MARKETS. SUGAR. Glasgow, Saturday.—Market clos.es firm and dearer, wit.h good demand. The official report states M«rVc-t closes firm with good .!cI11RlJd, prices oeiug occasionally dearer. For the week crystals a.nd fine are fully ld (leaxer yellows fully steady. Market and stores will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, ISH. Grimsby, Saturday.—Market fairly supplied by about 31 ...

... AMERICAN EXPANSION. Washington, Friday.—The Urgent Appropria- tion Rill-the first of the important Supply Bills for Government expenses has practically been compiled. It will amount to abont 51 million dollars, of which the War Department asks for 45,007,871 dollars and the Navy Department 3,143,170 dollars.-Penter. ...

... THE GERMAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. The plan ard details oce now published of the vessel which is being built at the Howaidt Ship- building Yard at Kiel for the German Antarctic Expedition. The ship in question will be built of wood, the only material strong and elastic enough to resist the pressure of the ice. In form she will be somewhat rounder than the Fram, and will not fall away towards the ...

... BOXING DAY EISTEDDFOD AT I BARRY, The third annnal eisteddfod in aid of the funds of the English Presbyterian Church, Barry, took place on Boxing Day at the Romilly Hail, when meetings were held in the afternoon acid eveuing under the presidency of Mr Henry Radsliffe. Penarth, Mr Tom John, Liwynypia, being the condnstor. The chief adjudicators were Mr J. E. Deacon, Cardiff, and Mr T. Ho wells, ...

... ONE AND ONE. BY MAYNE LINDSAY. (COPYRIGHT.) There was no sound bat the scratch of a pen flying across the paper and the breathing of the young man at the table as he covenad sheet after sheet with harried writing. It was a miserable room-a, dingy second-floor back in a London lodging-house, with an aching desolation of mean furnitura inside,-and beyond the dirty window an equally squalid vista ...

... MAIL CART ACCIDENT AT BRYNMCNIN. The Driver Badly Hurt. I On Christmas morning, as the mail cart between Bridgend and the Garw Valley was passing through Brynmenin, the horse collided with a bridge at a point where there is a sharp and dangerons curve in the road. The driver was thrown out and sustained serious injuries to his head. A tra.p had to be sent from Bridgend to fetch the mails. ...

... The Punishment of a Child. At the meeting of the Barry School Board as School Management Committee on Thursday evening, Mr J. Lowdon. J.P presiding, the head master of Holton-road School (Mr T. Higman), one of hi'! assistants (Mr J. E. hitman), and the father of a child alleged 53 have been unjustly treated bv M>* Whitman attended to have the charge made by Mr K. Brown-John, the parent, ...

... Our Volunteer Force. I REMINISCENCES. I GLAMORGAN'S FIRST RIFLE CORPS. I I The Start at Margam. MAJOR REES THOMAS'S RECOLLEC- TIONS. I f Movement in the Rhondda. Early Days at Pentre and Treherbert, Recollections of the start of the Volunteer movement in South Wales and letters concerning matters raised in my recent articles (writes The Major ) still reach mo by every post. To-day I publish ...

... George Taylor (26), described as a ,r, wan a week or two ago discovered oa t'n.s icufof a jeweller's in Liverpool-street, London. He was smartly dressed, and of good appearance, but. a the time was night, and as he was found to be in possession of some very fino housebrsaking implementp,-sucti as a bracf; and bits, mortice, chisels, and wedges, and a portable electric light with pocket ...

... ARCHERS INFANT PLANT CIGAHETTES pro nounced by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to bo the ocbt lie evsr f'nwíœd. Service Gazette. ADVICE TO MOTHEBS, Are yon broken in your rest by a a:clc child suffering with the pain in cutting teeth ? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of MRS WINSIJOV S SOOTHING SYILUP. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. It is pleasant to take it produces ...