... I- THE CAPE SERVIOC Launch of a Union Liner at Belfast (PROM oUR SPECIAL COBRMsE l5T.) Belfast, December 2L This forenoon Messm Harland & Wolff launched the Saxon, a twin-screw steamer of 12,910 tons gross, which they have built for the mail service of the Union Company, When completed the ; vessel will be the largest not only in the Cape service, but in any British colonial servio. i and in ...

... aoRiet.hing better to take its place. But the silent victory obtained this week 18 a forcible tribute to the power of Orgaaisation. In fourteen months, the Federation in South Wales has en- rolled 106,400 members and the eon- fributiona paid in on the lodge system have already brought into the gen- eral and district funds about •> pounds, of which uy>uar £ 21.000 is now on deposit to tUe w-edi ...

... THE BOERS AND THE OUTLANDERS. On Monday evening a largely attended public meeting was held at the Board Schoolroom, Llan- gynog. Mr Lomax, Bodfach Park, presided, and was supported by R Williams-Wynn, and Mr B Bryan, Denbigh. The arteudance included Messrs Roberts, Tynpant; D P Jones, Tyncoed; David Alorgan, Tanycoed T W Roberts, Waun David Evans; R Owen, Post Office; Evans, Eithen E Edwards, ...

... A LOCAL OFFICER'S OPINION. Replying to a question of a correspondent re th* Volunteer forces Captain J. M. Davev, who commands No. 5 Company of the 1st &.V.A. at Briton Ferry, says :—I consider that the Volunteer forces of this country contain material which, if properly cared for, would make a most useful addition to the military strength of our country. I cannot help seeing that as it is at ...

... NSW YORK PRICES. [Renter's Telegrams.1 Now York, Thursday.—The depression on the Stock Exchange was reflected in sharp declines on the opening of the market here to-day, though losses in International Stocks did not reach Lon- don parity. The market, however, hardened immediately, but soon afterwards became irregu- lar and unsettled. London sold between 15,000 and 20,000 of various ...

... A serious accident WAS averted by the smart- ness of a pointsman at Pontrhydyfen, on Sunday, in turning into a siding a runaway portion of a gMds train. The trocks were overturned and wrecked, but had they been allowed to run down to Port Talbot the damage would have been much more serious. ...

... THE DIN OF THE ftJGELA FIGHT. LADYSMITH 'EXPECTANT. (Press Association War Special.) LADYSMITH, December 14th, via Pietermaritzburg, December 19th. Since the capture of a Boer howitzer battery on the 10th the enemy's artillery has been fairly quiet, an4 no further casualties have occurred. There was great excitement here yesterday when heavy cannonading was heard in the direction of Colenso, ...

... TRANSPORTS. ARRIVED AND EN The Tintagel Castle, with 1,300 troops, includ- ing the 2nd Battalion Worcester Regiment, left Las Palmas on Saturday for Cape Town. The Canada, with the 1st Battalion South Lan- cashire Regiment and drafts, arrived at Durban on Saturday. The Algeria left Cape Town for Durban on; Saturday with the 6rd Battery Field Artillery. The Admiralty reports that the Maplemoore ...

... 1-MThe TauiSTiiii.—If war isnb ont life wOlbef .destroyed. ColerrKvnV Wincarnls preserves life' t It is made with Port Wine, Liebig's Extract of Meat, a and Extract of Malt, and is tbe finest tonic and* rest,orative in the world. 6,000 medical men say to.. Coleman & Co., Ltd., Norwich aud London. Sample bottle sent free on receipfcof fall .postal address Elus t It is made with Port Wine, ...

... A Paris correspondent writes :—A luench gentleman named Auguste Lanfroy, who had just returned from Klondike, WAS on Tuesday the victim of an ingenious robbery. On landing at Bordeaux he picked up acquaint- ance with ? fellow-traveller giving the name of Adrien Costes. The latter persuaded M Lan- froy to accompany him to 'Paris. On Sunday night, after dinner at a restaurant, the new friends ...

... SOUTH WALES COAL rHADB. OWNERS' ASSOCIATION. MESSRS GLASBROOK NOT ADMITTED INTO MEMBERSHIP. THE BUTE AND LEWIS MERTHYR COLLIERIES. A meeting of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners'Association was held yesterday at the offices of the association, Cardiff, Mr H. W. Martin, the chairman, presiding. The busi- ness was principally cf a routine character. A large number of claims for ...

... WOMEN CHAT. The Queen’* Chrmm%* dinner Osborne ia served aitli great ceremony, there being grand display I plate the sideboard and the table. The i-aron beef, woodcock pie, and boar’* heal, are cooked Windsor, and thence despatched Osborne. Turkeys and pee«e figure the menu, together with urn-pudding, and perhaps the vet y b**( mince pies in the world. Christmas card* »how sign becoming less ...