... charged with having travelled on the London and North-western Railway from London to Clifton (Runcorn) on December 29 without having paid his fare. It appeared that the prisoner got into a waggon at Chalk Farm 4 Station, London, some time on the night of the ...

... L OCAL NEWS. NEW L.ANUAsHIH AND YORMSsaRE RAILWAY Orricua-The Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail- way Company have appointed Mr. Benjamin C- Nicholas as the district passenger superintendentd Ih of the central division of their line, which includes a Liverpool ...

... ,Dead Marxch1 was played after morning-service. Tax SAD SUnXssA? NEW BanRIGs-Mr. J. C. Bate, county coroner fRW West Cheshire, held an inquest ?? at the Boathouse, Magn- sines, New Brighton, toulching the, death of Marxy Adshezd, a widow, belonging ...

... absolutely nothing new to be reported in the way of active operations at the seat of war. The arrival of Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener at Capetown was officially notified yesterday. Lord Salisbury travelled from Hatfield to London yesterday afternoon ...

... was very real. But good news has come. The postman brought it to the Shropshires, and the Comnwalls found it out for themselves. Roberts is to command the forcer in South Africa, and Kitchener is to be his chief of staff. The news ran through the lines ...

... which we think necessary to success. We t must go ?? than this, and we admit it This I , is a war under new conditions in a new country I I and with new arms and with a people whose tena- i c city and coirage are as admirable as those of our Iown soldiers ...

... with valentines of a 'humorous character, has gradually but surely ;declined in popular favcur-while the send- ing of Christmas and New Year's greetings has increased in a much wider ratio-until to-day the old custom has all but dis- appeared. But few ...

... rnean to lot this agitation drop till adequate reformi J A sketoh of Pretoria Jail, by MIr. George Lynch, of the Illustrated London News. The men standing about axe ?? British. soldiers. bhave been undertal;en. It is urged by thlem that the Governnient ...

... gardening contemporaries renrarks that generally far more sceds are SOwiI than is really ie- coariary, which is quito true. New r eeds call always be depended upon to grow well, baut old seeds ger- tinmate indifferently, and then it is well to BOW Mcuch ...

... year as Recorder of Liver- pool, he having been appointed in February of 1886. Having become a barrister at the Middle Tempie in 1853k he practised on the Northern Circuit and mn London, took 6ilk r in 1874, was elected bencher of the Middle I Temple 1876 ...

... IALLY CABLED.) NEw YOeU, WEDNsDAY. a American financiers have been thoroughly p stirred by the report, which was subsequently n verified, that Russia has arranged through M. a Routkowsky, her financial agent-at Washing- o ton, with a New York syndicate ...

... battalion when, it. furnishe4 th e escort 'for the Jamesoli Raid ,prisoners n 1886. Lieutenant X- IR. S. Martio is the 'acting a4jutanit. He had nearly two yeairs in the City of London Regi- ment, 'before joining .the Lancasters; in Decemnber, 1892 Curiouily ...