... dificult to E believe that any prospect of success would a bring the Boers to the pitch of attacking e again, with no cover to speak of,'and with ij the certainty of meeting thoseN terrible v bayonets once more. It is rather:tbe cease- I less flow of the reports ...

... A 9 IT EMS. SIR WILFRID LAURIER AND TEE WAR. Montrea], January 12. 5 Sir Wiifrid La-ir`er, speaking at Sherbrooke 0 to-day, referred to the war in South Africa. In connection with the part which Canada was z tak;ng in it, he declared that the sending ...

... General Buller is ;crking round the Boer p r tions. His official despatch to the War Office is s dated from Springfield, and it speaks of the e occupation of a drift on the south bank of the I Tugela. A cursory glance at a map of the dis-C tricr will show that ...

... from the Continent, the improvement became mnore marked. Except in i the American Railway market there was no I set-back to speak of. for the favourable political I news was confiraned in the afternoon by the a War Office. - The expectation that the fall ...

... M.P., in at Aberdeen. Now, sir, Mr Bryce may be a an gentleman fit to occupy the position of M.P., tu: but he should not speak on a subject that he ra does not understand anything about. Saying sp so may appear to you -o be a piece of presumpn- ir tion ...

... commercial interests were so t intimately connected with those of Britain that i a union of the two countries was inevitable. 1 Speaking of the army, he expressed himself not in favour of conscription, although the army woul4 require to be reorganised. Referring ...

... charged to-day before the I t -Magistrate hero with the crime of high treason 1 n The prisonar, who is a Dutchman, unable to e speak English, joined the rebel commando wich seized Dougias in November. He was seen a among a crowid of Free State burghers armed ...

... t Colonel Welby on the Army Mistakes. tE e _P Colonel Welby, M.P., until recently eom- mandant of the Royal Scots Greys, speaking at F r- Taunton yesterday, said a thorough and search- h g lig inquiry would have to be made at the con- d a cluscou of the ...

... by-roads to are quagmire-like, so followcrs need not turn io r for home without a liberal bespattering of the tl }h mire which speaks so eloquently of lively sport. t] in That scent should have served so well in the !s a- unsettled weather of last week seemed ...

... perfected. a - 5 ti masy he a virtue but six months in this vi rcjttr a Lng period to cultivate that ?? nfnt. Snio-ild I wish to speak from t-e :bit5 to Ibrox I am informed that u-vil tine nme up when ready. and 'ictn.- this takes lonaer than it would to RI ...

... much reason for complaint with the l I railway people, but now the orders were being as sent ofi with fair promptitude, and, speaking generallv the output was equal to the demand. p4 There &ere. naturally, contracts running at all Pi the large collieries: ...

... necessary Vic to s tate that the rumour is not only entirely, 5u d but ahost obviously, baseless. The Duke lire dconaparativcly speaking, a young man devotedr .e to bi: profession, and nothing is further from 'iot Iris thoughts than to be compulsorilv retired ...