... VOLUNTEER SHOOTING. I Competitions at Pontypool. I The prize shooting competition in connection with the A Company 3rd V.B. S.W.B. were held at the Cwmiickey range, Pontypool, in excel- lent weather. The following wore the results Christmas Shooting.—Sergt. Vaughan 60 points Sergt. Ganter 59, Colour-Sergeant Hum- phries 58, Sergt. Luffman 57, Private W. E. Jarvia 56. Sergt. G. Ja.rvis 55, ...

... WOOD-STREET CHAPEL. I At the Wood-street Congregational Church, Cardiff, on Wednesday evening, a reception was given to the new minister ot the church, the Rev. John T. Peace, who was until recently pastor of Ponders End Church, London. He is an eloquent preacher, and strong hopes are enter- t,-n,d that through his labouts the chursh will be restored to the eminent position it held daring the ...

... A CLEVER ONE-ARMED GIRL Some interesting facts concerning a pauper girl came out at a meeting of the City of London Guardians yesterday. A lady at Woburn wrote asking that a girl named Ethel Thomas, an in- mate of the Homerton Workhouse, might be sent to her in order that she might be placed with some respectable person. One of the guardians stated that the girl: who was 16 years of age, was ...

... LORD ROSEBERY INDIGNANT. I Lord Rosebery at yesterday's meeting of the Epsom Urban Council severely criticised the recent judgment of Mr Juatice Bigham in an action brought by the Ep'om Council against the London County Council in a claim for damages caused by heavy traffic. The Judge, Lord Rose- bery remarked, bad said that a pigmy should not fight—that the Epsom Council ought not to have ...

... CHAMBERLAIN LIBEL SUITS. A Second Writ Served. The Exchange Telegraph Company is in* ormed that a writ was yesterday morning served upon Messrs Le«i3 and Lewis, who are acting for the 8titr Nswnpaper Company, the proprietors of the Morning Leader, at the instance of Mr Arthur Neville Chamberlain, the second son of the Colonml frecrttary. This writ, as in the case of that issued by Mr Arthur ...

... At Wolverhampton yesterday Henben Wash- ington, a mill Wright's labonrer, Coventry-street, Wolverhampton, and his wife wtre charged with iK«leotit ...

... I A LADY'S VOTE REFUSED. A singular incident occurred yesterday. A lady named Julia Leaver was placed ou the register. She received the election literature and finally her polling card, bnt on prac-entiiig herself to vote for Mr Whitehead, the Libaral caudidate, her vote was refused. The Conservative agent, Mr Fletcher, then endeavoured to secure her v3to, bnt after a. considerable amount of ...

... I Love Conquers All. A romxntic fact, stranger than fiction, has been brought before my own persoual notice (says a writer in the Gont;Jewoman ). Nineteen years ago a clergyman, a very charming und distinguished man of high family, vicar of a church in the country, baptised one Sunday after- noou, with a number of other children, the baby daughter of a miner and his wife The clergyman waa ...

... THE JUDGE'S CHARACTER. Judge Anstin, of the Bristol County Courts evideutiy ba a caustic wit. In giving jud. went the other day against a domestic servant who sued her mistress for a month's wages in lieu of notice, his Houonr observed that he did rot wish to hurt the plaintiff s feelings, bnt if she wanted a character at any time he would testify tha.t she was an experienced and deliberate ...

... SOUTH WALES COAL TRADE, Coalowners in Conference. A general meeting of the Moumouthshiie and Sontli Wale.-i Coalowners' Associntion was held to-dn ...

... THE SMILE OF A CHILD is like sunshine after ra n. farucn'ariy so wnen the smile follows pain relieved by California Syrup of Figs—an ideal medicine for children. This remedy children take with pleasure always. The taste ia agreeable to a child s idea of what is nice, and the necessary medicinal effect is not obtained by patting the tiny sufferer to tbe in- fantile torture inseparably connected ...

... LATEST WIRES. Official Proclamation. BURGHERS AND THE WAR. I The Dawn of Peace. LEADERS' MOVEMENTS. I (Through Laffun's Agency.) I PRETORIA MILITARY CAMP, Wednesday. Lord Roberta has issued a proclamation statiug •hat all matters relating to the provisional gov- °'Hment of the Transvaal shall be referred to General Maxwell, General Maxwell is authorised to appoint Officers to carry oat the ...