... STOP 0 PRESS. I ' ' - 1 ; T~his Space is Reserve'd for Important Ndews receiyved aft a) we have gone to Press. ?? p . - -- . 1)4 . f ?? :. ., ?? lv,0,S ti . .. s q :, 1 ?? f hi 01 ci~ gf I TIlES TSfIflBGRA. : . j :M, s 'I MODDR RIVER,, Saturday. d- A few s1hells vere exchanged today. We had a na casualties. ;,AAF tEDINET, Thursday. The distict is practically uinatrued, alndl irs w supplied ...

... e- t BRITISH BOMBARD THE BOER F 'POSITION. Li RECONNAISSANCE BY :THE LANCERS. . - - * . From the Daliy. Telegraph O Special Correspondent. ?? Special Arraegement for Simultaneous .0 it Pbiatioil in ?? We~stern Mail. tz ir MODDER RIVER Tuesday (10.50 ?? tj It The 9th Lancers, with two guns, went P o out this morning four miles east: of our position and blew up two houses. ;e The Boer guns ...

... We regret to •nsooode the death o/ Mr Hairy Gregory. of Portkeewl, in ►fs Grd yam. He was a familiar tigers at Partbeawl, and • genial and unobtrusive patron. He was a regular attendant of All Swots' Chards. H. leaves a widow to mown inn low. Ho well known M th; iii;rts in the CWpnel, berinnbeZi for over yews &gee merles engineer wrath the !at: Mr of MERTHYR GUARDIANS. THE AUDITOR'S SURCHARGE ...

... Acatoollecalin aad FLO ann. Winn. -Left At BTU VAT ?be cant DE M.& we JEAN ['CURZON, Nondescript Piens. nod DA MARTINI* 1% Cost Continental Vocalist. Prof. DUNNING, HARRY BEDFORD, Nom rt A Little Bit Of Me T. Paa Office open daily et the Empire Onloos. the fire did not Wert, lent), reception of 11 rn. to 4 p.m. nod 7to 10 p.m. Saturday, 11 e.m. So p.m. Ptau of GrunlChtle. No booking tees. ...

... XTION OF THE FREE STATERS. A DENTIAL. il:'VE'T:ttS TELEUBRAM.1 AMSTERDAM, Sunday. Aienuve Rottordanische Conrant is etd by Dr. MNuller, the Orange Free Stato ,.entativc at The H-fgue, to deny that the ee Staters are displaying vacillation or are erting the 'Trausanil caurse. Such storiessays Huller. are onfly spread far the purpo-e of iuraging the British. and there is absolutely ruth in them ...

... T JUANS.VAA.L WA.RQ POSITION TO - DAY I A thrilling inessage from Mr. Bennet Thrlcigh came in wiith the first hour of the :sew Year this morning. It speaks of a I great lbaittle at hani--tlho fiercest of all so far. BoIler, lie says, is about to strike his crucial blow;. ?? Iiurleigii is too cautious a man and ( too careful of his reputation to speak of alln'thill except of what he know s, and ...

... ARCHLTRCT and CONTRACT RRPORTSR slaw. .nd Infinentw circulation rummest Arcli. Seals. Builder Contractors. sad We wealthy public, add One beets found to bee Ter, vote. of outdid g. The ARCHITECT and CONTRACT ItlorPOrrAZ semWnaa Inreer number of Tender* and Humiliate Op. Urn soymber paper. ARCHITECT and CONTRACT /REPORT/It Dell ors t and newt Desoto! Areluteetaral lANHlsatr.Hnnnaf soy paper ...

... a What la model of al wash-. GWILTII OWILYM GYM= ...

... The fight bed bees terrible tio to now, and bad lent about dee Men. IWA down with our Pliny taking the plum of one who wee killed, bringieg the abate from the limber to the gen. Henan,' Fun Symons *AI riding on his hone inn • few yards away. I went op to him and asked him it done were soy enters for she town gesrd and Rifle Assoceitioo, which I beleetted to, we bean all and not dressed in soy ...

... We an plowed lime that mgoetatione for the..WNsent of titia loogateading dirpote bare been reopened, and a denotation was appointed Theredaymesieg to meet Mr W. Hatches, the maws the will y. & mignon of the weaknee at If.. was Mid on Saturday evening el the Hate Anse, Mr Joseph Prim in the chair, of the depotatiou. The beet prevailed, and tbe dupptation resparieli Wt they had mewed an ...

... AT LADYSMITH. THE PINCH OF SIEGE LIFE. ( rims Telegrams) LILDYSKITH, December 216 (by mere to Emeour. 13^^4.7). pce lie lea dap the Mee. bees sacked by Hale spacial i s . taut. The messy dead. Net 'Wisp until Ye day before yesterday, alma tbey the baseline bombard. meat obi* they are capable. Their practice abetted eeseideestia saearsey, °tamale' latterly have beta math brewer. DevoesYin ad ...

... LOCAL ITEWS PARA:ORAPHa. ?? to l Onl Saturday at Merthiyr a child seven weeks' whil old. named Henora, De Laney, whose parents soIC reside off Bethesda-street;,,died froca, burns insl received onl the 22nd of Decernber..gi SMOKRERS finding, a- Shag~ Tobacco too strong tur should Smoke Archer's Golden Returns, (regis. p-ee: tered). Middium flavour, fully matured. Four radl years in bond before ...