... It is best to start dwarf beans in 3 inch pots (two or three seeds to each), that the plants Can be bedded out on vacant benches when the pots are fall of roots. Excellent yields are tainable in S inch pots also, five or six seeds being need each pot, or in boxes placed in ■pare, light spots in cucumber and melon bouses. Strong bottom-beat and temperatures from 79 to 90 degrees by day, and ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT AT CARDIFF; Inquest and Verdict. On Thursday last Mr John Clement Sritton, as be was leaving his house, 242, Newport-road, Car- diff, slipped and fell. The back of his head came in contact with the doorstep, but although the blow made him giddy he subsequently went to his business. On Sonday he was tttSen seriously ill, and died on Wednesday morning. Mr Sutton, who was 41 years ...

... A STORY OF THE SNOW. ...

... ST. ASAPH COUNTY COURT. TBIDAY Before His Honour Judge Sir Horatio Lloyd, and Oliver George, > sq, Registrar. ADMINISTRATION ORDER. RobcTt John Jones, Bryn Felin, Dyserth, applied for an order for the administration of his debts which were scheduled at £21. He offered to pay in full by instalments of 6s. a month. Mr Pierce-Lewip, and Mr Bromley, who appeared for creditors appealed for a larger ...

... HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES. BY MABON, M P. Says the Routh Wales Daily Neics :—The proper housing of the poorer sections of the iu. dustrial classes has become a question of serioas unrest. Yes, of all the conditions affecting the life and welfare of the community, there is not one which is of more vital importance than the houses in which the masses of our people live, and especially in ...

... LONDON LETTER. LONDON, Tuesday Night. A STRIKING CHANGE. Boxing Day has scarcely maintained its festive I traditions this year. The streets of London were I almost deserted in the earlier hours of the day, ana they were not much basier at night. Old stagers say that the absence of animation, which is now one of the most marked features of a general holiday in the capital, has been becoming ...

... (From Our Special War Correspondent.) CHIEVELEY CAMP, Dec. 20, 2.30 p.m. Two naval gans were in action again this morn. ing against the enemy's trenches for an hour and a half. It is impossible to tell the result. Our patrols were fired on last night from Amhlangana Hill on our right flank and on the south side of the Tugela. It i3 believed that the Boers are in consider- able strength there, ...

... ; BRIGADIER-GENERAL MACDONALD ( FIGHTING. MAC ) TO SUCCEED GENERAL WAUCHOPE : THIS popular officer, at ?? India, is : ordered to South' Africz to take command of the Highland Brigade, and is welcomed on' every side as the best possible'appoint- ?? thiat ' could be made, since the gallant Highlander, quite apart from the high and conspicuous merits wbich qualify him for th&: post, is' ordered ...

... FOREIGN PRAISE. OF BRITAIN. THE special' .correspondent of,the Daily Telegraph at Vlienna ,sends the following extracts from Austrian papers, which are strong in their sympathy with the Boers: It is, noticeablethat: all the papers pro- fessedly Angiophobe express admiration of the, courageous attitude of the English nation. A. paper which is au strong friend of the Boers, nvrites:., ?? ...

... SPEECH DAY AT THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. q There was a large gathering at the Grammar School on Monday afternoon 031 the occasion of the distribution by Sir William Herschel (a member of the Tbehiiical Instruction Committee of the t 3 Oxfordshire County Councib), of the prizes and cer- l tiicates which had been gained by the students during the year. The vicinity of the platform where the ceremony ...

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... IDftittVi Rmoo COLEFORD, BATH. ( Much card and taste were shown on the decoration t of the sacred edifice of Holy Trinity Church by Mrs e W. A. Dwight and a number of willing helpers. The services were conducted both on Sunday and Christmne Day by thaecar (the RbvW. A . Dwight). i On Christmas Day the choir, under M~r Wilson E *ver, who was at-the organ, gave an admlrable rendering P of Roland ...