- 'Much excitement was caused at Lloyd's on Friday and Saturday when it became known that tie Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company's steamer flokhara, which left Shanghai for Hoeg Kong, a three days' voyage, on the Bth iiist., had not arrived at her destination. The undcrwr

HOW A BOSTON BOY GOT A SPANKING. His mamma: "Willie, I wish you would go into the pantry and bring me the hottie with a ruttier cork in it that you will find on the top shelf." , . Willie (returning after a prolonged absence)! "Couldn't find any bottle with a rubber cork, mamma.

!LIMITED, :And their Agents, at 90 tor the Is led size. A FAIR TRIAL CANNOT FAIL TO GIVE SATISFACTION. Do you suffer in the Winter_from . COLD and COUGH, With pain and weakness in the chest? Consult your physician, and should he order you to " take Cod Liver Oil, take it in time

VALUABLE ABOUT OIL LAMPS. Lamps should be filled in daylight, and not left until dark. A very good plan for housewives to adopt is to bring the lamp and wash it after the breakfast dishes are all washed in the morning, and fill it and trim it. Then it is ready for night. Once get

ROM BOUR.NEMOUTH TO THE NORTH, via Somerset and Dorset, and Midland Railway fft - iTIONB7 BOMINEMOUTFI (West)... dep. Park stone Poole Broadstone Junction Broadstone dep. Wimborne .............. arr.l Wimborne, Jn. for L. & S.W. Ry dep., Bailey Gate (for Stur'ster Marsh'l) „ Spe

Trade Auxiliary Company (Limited), 42. GRESHAM STREET, LONDON, E.C. SCRIBERS, by obtaining timely fnformation may AVOID MAKING BAD DEBTS. Every Trader should read STUBBS' WEEKLY GAZETTE, with which is issued a supplement containing Lists of Creditors under all the important fail

THE WHOLE REGIMENT TO BE PUNISHED. No success having attended the stens taken by the military authorities to discover the man or men of the Ist Life Guards who injured the saddlery of the C Squadron on the night of Saturday week, orders have been given for all leave of 3fficers,

HER REQUEST WAS GRANTED.—SantueI Montgomery, of High Street, Poole, who was apprehended on a warrant, pleaded not guilty to a charge preferred against him by his wife, Annie Montgomery, of assaulting her on October lst.—Complainant said that she had left her husband some time si

The Sewerage Committee reported upon the scheme that had been prepared for sewering certain portions of the borough reported on by Mr. James Lemon,C.E., as follows :—lt was resolved that the Council instruct Mr. Lemon to check the levels of the drainage scheme RB far as it might

A singular incident has just come to light in reference to an inquest which was held at Thetford, Suffolk, in July, 1886, on the body of James Fleet, an aged bookbinder, and well known in the locality JIB a Wesleyan local preacher. Ile was seen bathing early in the morning, and