By Permission. STRANG! PORTUNE-TBLLER BT MAURICE WHITLOW. There were four of us in an express train chatting together as we sped towards London. As we journeyed we passed a group of gipsy caravans. Sturdy, biown- Bmbed children were playing round the open fire, while their paren

P.c. Watt. —P.c. Joseph Watt, who waa so seriously injured last week in a brave attempt to stop a runaway horse, is still lying in the Victoria Cottage Hospital in a critical state. Thursday night there was practically no improvement in his condition. Failure op a Builder.—At th

Farm. Tamworth. SALE of Surplus FARMING STOCK for E. Sebtner, Esq. (who has let the farms. SEPT. 24th. Comberford Hall, near Tamworth. SALE of Valuable HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Glass. China, and Effects, for C. A. Chandos Pole, Esq. ( who going abroad). SHENSTONE, LICHFIELD. DISPERS

IMPERATOR FIRE. WORLD'S LARGEST T.i\ OFFICER SUFFOCA 1,500 PASSENGERS IN OUTBREAK SCBDCO. The larsjoht, the Imi*-.ra:or, the tlamhirff Lin*, caught at. York the tarty hour* of mornsrig. The outbreak confined v. T.he pfovMii bur. second officer ?aiffooated m with the flames. Then.

SIDMOUTH LADE'S FAILURE 1 PUBLIC EXAMINATION AT EXETER. Living beyond her means was the alleged cause of the failure Miss Edith Isabel Wilson, now of Weston-super-Mare, but lately St. Aubyn's, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and formerly of tlje Knowle Hotel, Sidmouth, and whose public ex

and times. three and four thousand the afternoon*^ 118 at 10.<5 in Bishop Aiirtu' , sai 'l policeman -at the the afternoon 1 ' Court. "Rather late in "But it is a s °gJ?©st?d the Chairman, trates' Clerk n °°n," said the. Magisgal," said Sights remember in Portuture the P i" Fen

During a thunderstorm at Axmintter last Saturday, William Clegg was sent by his-employers deliver sheet of glass in the town. Following a vivid flash of lightning, the glass was found to bs broken, as shown above. (Photo by Higgins and Sons, Axminster-)

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breeders, butchers, dealers, and others to thin and healthy farm, ttoe Stock of robu«t atitution, a.nd camiot fail to in district. The are well-bred oif the tyj>e. The Flock all Horae, good and excellent quality. The Horses are well bred lood workers. GRASS KEEP the Estate will