COMPETITION FOR CAPTAIN’S PRIZE. Hie second qualifying round for the prize presented Formby Golf Club by captain. Mr. W. B. Leitcb, was played Saturday at Frcsbficld links. Thoro wore 114 cards taken oat. The competitors who qualified play ofT under match rules with fcho winners

Within the past two months two almost sirai-2ar miatiape Lave* occurred to Donegal At the inquest the jury returned a verdict ** Accidentally drowned,The ootiicd stall are young Moore. Burns, and Montgomery.

Over 100,000 persons were present at the Crystal on Saturday to witness llic final for the fioglish between Aston Villa and Newcastle Ufuted. The was that tH be desired, and the Sydenham gpxxmd, with its natural of actouitnodstio"! prer«n6od a eight to be remembered. Every possi

The annuel meeting Xssnoashrm ration Liberal Clubs was hold afternoon in the Hop wood Liberal Club, Hoy•wood, and attended delegates from many Lancashire towns. county federation now include* nine district federations, comprising clubs, with about 25,000 members. Mr. W. R. Box.

WIFE ACCUSED OF THEFT, WOMAN COLLAPSES THE POLICE George Iloakl. ctoward to Purston branoh Oddfellowß and trocourer the Coronation Working Club, accused his wife. Emma, Pontefract, stealing £l9 10s 6d, of which ten guineas hie own money, and the balance belonging the Oddfellows,

Police Witness’s Lively Experiences. Remarkable Case at Preston. Preston Pulioo-oourt. Monday, before Dr. Dunn ami Mr. A. K. Healey. Henry Holmes summoned for using ebsoorw language and abo with In* trig riotous ami disorderly. Mr. Blaekiiurat, who [U - «*t«uted on behalf police

Some remarkable bidding was witnessed last week at Christie's, when there was offered for sal© collection of porcelain, lutes, and other objects art. the property lato Lieutenant Colonel E. A. An old Chinese oviform vase, 17i inches high, was knocked down Mr. (or 1.950 guineas,

A man, who wan alleged to have entered a house m Hackville- street, Coventry, walked into the bedroom, and assaulted two children who were in bed by strikang them the head with a stone, lias been remanded. '£he father, their seres ms, nurried tiio room, ami Ending the prisoner t

Uaimeny Here. Faciers and a!) the leaning Burt*.— J. WOOILAM, (Manager), Pulwood Halt Faicn,