... did good work in the Jscanese war. The ship was christened Fourth of July by Miss Watts. in commemoration of American Independence Day. The utmost precautions had been thken by the repreeentatives of the firm to guard agairst anything in the shape of an ...

... Christmas, and will produce the Christmas burlesque for the Strand. The piece for the Strand will be on a Welsh subject. INDEPENDENCE DAY AT DENEVA.—A telegram from Geneva says :—A brilliant celebration of the Fourth bas taken place here to-day. In front ...

... A large independent day school is being built at Burnopfield. A reading room is about to be built at Thornley, near Gibaide, by the ttfarquis of Bute. Captain Beaumont, M.P. for South Durham, is intending to patent a new kind of coal-cutting machine. ...