I I I t New and Seasonable Goods Just to Hand and Gen to and Calf Fitting Good Wearing Correct Styles coat in no than for inforior Hoots and you got AND GOOD WEAR Our Box Calf and Don- Shoo Dressing best for serving Leather and gives an Elegant Polish Rubbers Beat Quality WE KEEP Novelties Wo have Somothing Now and Handsome A job lot of Majolica Jugs at and leeks WHAT IK i The regular meeting of Missionary Socio y of Church will bo held at residence- of Mm Bool ton on Nov at oclock I Bicycle Club A full attendance of la requested for Friday at at oclock for of procuring a Room for tho winter of Rally on Monday woo a Over CO members present and vieiUng Ton new members initiated into It was decided to hold a Tuesday and a cordial invitation extended to tho public to bo present fill was a genera cleaning of windows In town last morning An am ateur artist with pot and brush traces of hie from of Main street to tho other Ho evidently had Africa on brain and no doubt many boys who had cleaning up to do wish ed ho had boon a target for With tVjis exception Halloween pBSod off Quietly in town At north eomo or persons of mind a telophono polo with a wheel A of wero displaced on Park Battle pear The Whole British They boose filled of and Seven Guns The had Killed and Wounded Hot Supper and friends of lian making great preparations for Harvest Homo on Tuesday of Hoy In with Hot Fowl already a reputation for a of extra ordinary merit is Tho of Toronto a for thomeelves throughout province and recognized as finest professional Canadian publ engaged to program with Mr Arthur Oliver as accompanist rtlako no other for this and both the physical and intellec tual feast bills for particu lars Now Valencia arrived New Cod Fish fi neat quality just received Comb Honey at 10 and 10c Section GRAPE NUTS a very nutritious and wholesome Breakfast Food Excelsior is Finest Blond of Coffee Our Japan Tea at 25cts is sure to Convention Tho North York Sunday Bohoo tlon Is to bo held in tho Christian Newmarket week after next promises to bo oho of best arrang ed by Association The programs should bo distributed in Sunday School In the Hiding by next Sunday Mr Day Provincial Secretary is combined Boor forces under General commenced to shell with forty pounders mount ed on hills at am on day advanced on the British left flank Genoral White fiont a mountain battery Irish to take up a position on hills to the left flank are on hills for a radius of sixteen miles- Then Genoral White detailed two divisions under Gen French to attack a position which previously mounted guns found this position hod been but his force was attacked with much vigor by Boor troops who had rnado many guns and showed up in great numbers pushed miles when he British forces wore gradually with drawn British losses are esti mated between and General White thinks Boor much Naval Guns from Durban marines from Powerful arriv ed at during the engage ment and before many shots were fired by the marines Boer forty pounders on tho hills temporari ly disabled is now said to bo freed from apprehension of owing to tho long range of Powerful guns and of their work is little change in the position the skirmish Tho guns of a British mountain sent out the night before lost owing to tho mules stamped ing Tho battle had lasted four hours during which artillery fire on both sides had boon incessant The naval brigade which was landed at Durban had arrived on scone toward of the fight and brought heavy guns into play Their practice was magnificent At fourth shot tho enemys forty pounders had knocked out of action Throughout the engagement the Boers held their ground with courage and tonaoity and considering intensity of our artil lery fire they must suffered se verely A spooial from says that y j The Departing Contingent to be hero probably for both days Rev Dr Workman a gentleman of distinguish Col has built a railway The Reliable Grocer Cor Main Timothy Sts The Laws Of the Land Do not protect you from Quack Vendors Protect yourself by consulting only resident and qualified Opticians Oar optical department is At Your We make Charge for testing Your Eyes ability will be spoaker on the first evening and Rev John Kelt pastor of the street Presbyterian Church To and a specialist in work will the address on second evening The choir of the Christian pre paring special for the occasion and a large delegation from surrounding is anticipated ALL FLOW EBB iA increaee on our last years attendance A dally roll of Thats where the tide of competency has carried Into year and it means the largost business school in Canada today The demand for competent bookkeeper stenographer or tele grapher is steadily on the We know it our proves it That demand be greater than ever Will you join us j and be able to do then A line to us will more infor mation Bend for it BUSINESS COLLEGE men Toronto Out On Friday last Mr Norman Curtis returned from a harvest excursion to Manitoba enjoying thotripimmensely Ho reporta a bountiful harvest in that province Mr and wife of were calling on friendsin this vicinity this week On Wednesday of last week Mr A of was engaged on roof of Mr Davis house slipped and fell to ground injuring one arm to such an extent as to require least a weeks rest Mr A Seymour received an injury this week caused by a plank breaking on a farm waggon and bruising his leg Mr M left on Tuesday last for lumber Mrs Fox of Toronto is visiting at farm Some tramps or other miscreants lodged in Kettleby School house a few evenings ago and left things in a very daicreditable state At a meeting of those objecting to paying Railway assessment tho year it was decided to wait for further information on the subject John has moved to Mr Melville Stephens house on the 3rd concession Tho collector of taxes Mr Joel Edwards did this burg up on Wed nesday last Major Stephenson of Aurora is moving into a at Tory Corners Mr John has leased the Butler farm for a term of years sidewalk on the west side of the pond here aro said to be in a dangerous state If the Commission ers aro not careful some persons cow or horse will be slipping into the pond if they monopolize the walk there they do in the village Principal Burglars forced to Myrtle Post Office on Friday night and stole a few overcoats and several other articles circling Mafeking on which he is running armoured trains to meet the Boors from any quarter Got 81 news receiv ed this morning from the seat of war at Natal is one should fill all patriotic Britons with the deepest of sorrow Despite work of the mili tary censor it is evident that General White has allowed himself to be drawn out from and defeated by Boers on their own ground While minor reverses were not wholly unex pected no Englishman ever dreamed that anything like the staggering blow General delivered to General Whites forces yesterday threatened the British arms in South Africa and apparently the full extent of the dis aster is not yet acknowledged of the finest British regiments and a mule battery deducted the smith garrisons weakens it about a fifth of its total strength and alters the whole situation very materially in favor of the Boers who once again have shown themselves stem fighters and military strategists of superior order The disaster cost the British from fifteen hundred to two thousand men and sevenpounder screw guns and as the Boer artillery is already stronger than imagined the capture of these guns will be a great help to the Boers London Oct 81 The War Office has sent the following despatch to General Throe extra battalions of foot and one mounted battery with reserves will leave England during the course of ten days to make good the casual ties A special despatch from Ladysmith says the Boers suffered severely dur ing the engagement some persons esti mating their losBat to killed and wounded About six thousand fresh troops arrive at Cape Town on Sunday next and will be available to reinforce Sir George White Transports will arrive there daily after Sunday until by the end of next week troops will have been landed in South Africa Thero is no from the western frontier mines are still working at Kimberloy where there provisions enough to last nine months Cecil Rhodes has mounted and fully a town guard of men at a cost of The heavy and incessant rains flooded River which will prove an effectual barrier to any Boors proceeding southward The remain ing bridges are strongly guarded Bonds a that tho Boers have captured mules Tho attempt of tho Boers to cut the railway at was frustrated by the British cavalry HOW London Nov Tho British War today public despatch received from General White describ ing tho operations of Monday It was as follows Oct 31 pm I took out from a bri gade of mounted troops two divisions of the Royal Artillery the Natal Field Battery and two brigades of infantry to in force tho enemys main to north and if opportunity should to capture the hill behind Farm which had on day been held in the enemy In connection with the advance a column consisting of the Tonth tain Artillery four half companies of six companies of the Royal Irish Fusiliers wholo under Carlton and Major Adye deputy assistant adjutantgeneral was despatched at 1 pm on tho twenty- ninth to march by night up Bolls Spruit seize Nicholsons Nek or some position near Nicholsons Nek thus turning tho enemys right flank main force was successfully carried out objective of tho at tack being found and an ar tillery duel between our fiold batteries and the enemys guns of the position Maxims is understood to have caused heavy loss to the enemy reconnoissanco forced to fully disclose his position and after a strong counter attack on our right the infantry brigade and cavalry had been repulsed troops slowly withdrawn to camp pickets being left on observation Late in engagement tho naval contingent under Captain of Powerful into action and silenced with tho extremely accur ate fire tho enemys position Tho circumstances which attended movements of Carltons column not yet fully known but from reports received the column ap pears to have carried out the night march unmolested until within two miles of Nicholsons Nek At this point two boulders rolled from the hill and a few stampeded the in fantry ammunition mules The stam pede spread to tho battery mules which broke loose from their leaders and got away with practically the whole of the gun equipment and the regimental small arm ammunition The reserve was similarly lost The infantry battalions however fixed bayonets and accompanied by the personnel of the artillery seized a hill on left of the roads two miles from the Nek with but little opposi tion There they remained unmolest ed till dawn the time being occupied in organizing the defence of hill and constructing stone sangars and walls as cover from fire At dawn a skirmishing attack on our position was commenced by the enemy but made no way until am when strong reinforcements en abled them to rush to tho attack with great Their fire became very searching and two companies of the in an advance position were ordered to fall back The en emy then pressed to short range the losses on our side becoming very num erous At pm our ammunition was practically exhausted position was captured and the survivors of the column fell into the enemys hands The enemy treated our wounded with humanity General Joubert at once despatching a letter to me offering a safe conduct to doctors and ambu lances to remove wounded A medical officer parties to render first aid to the wounded wero despatch ed to the scene of action from last night and the ambulance at dawn this morning The want of success of the was due to misfortune of the mules stampeding and the consequent loss of tho guns and small arm ammu nition and the reserve The security of Ladysmith is in no way affected OF A ROY to the Era- A visit to old Quebec and an in spiration from its atmosphere of chi valry for one who may have a taste for the quaint or the historic in archi tecture or the grand in hotting and scenery is at all times appreciated but to have been privileged to ho a spectator within the walls of the an cient capital and inside its eighteenth century fortifications Inst Sunday morning is a privilege that the hotel registers to indicate was accord to few from distant central Ontario The added inspiration and thrill of patriotism was conduce by mus tering Canadian Contingent on of its departure for active service in Africa Here they within the patrolled enclosure of the emigrant shed far out on the and later drawn up in review order on the pa rade ground of the historic citadel Cold Weather Talk fa In Season Wo just added to our large stock I ml mi Comprising every size variety of the best makes in Canada for both coal and wood These goods were bought before the rise in iron and intending purchasers should examine them before selecting elsewhere The friends of George lives on the 2nd concession of King township are somewhat uneasy over his absence He went out to dig post holes on Thursday of last week and did not return On Friday neigh bors went out to look for but could not find him found not find him They of his work in of the Standard correspondent at j holes which ho had dug and which Ladysmith telegraphing Saturday was full of water was assembled in uniform perhaps physically the finest body of military men that ever were in Am erica Sixfooter of athletic prowess were in predominance and as they marched through the narrow on parade to service at the Cathedrals there was no choice be tween the fyles so thorough had been the standard of admission and rigid the medical examination of qualifica tion for entrance to their ranks That the splendid body of troops was the very flower of young Canadian manhood as recruited from the Pacific to Atlantic was apparent to the enthusiastic thousands who notwith standing the mornings downpour of rain cheered the march As the men entered the Cathedrals perhaps some of them for the last time to be privileged to worship in a church die of the oc casion seemed engraven alike on the countenance of both civilian and sol dier for at the conclusion of the regu lar service in the Anglican Cathedral whose encircling galleries and old lab- walls were heavily draped in British bunting and a pair of tattered standards that had been carried to victory in the Crimea flanking the chancel over three hundred of these men wearing the uniform of the Wid ow of Windsor knelt at the altar as of old on the eve of battle and partook of the Holy Communion Few who took part in the service last Sunday morning can ever forget tho impressive scene A block distant in the Basilica was the unique spectacle of a French congregation numbering several thou sands joining in the celebration of the Mass as administered by the Ro man Catholic chaplain to tho members of the contingent of that faith with accompanying prayera for tho success of British arms And the added impression to an old was the realization that the old town was worthily repre sented amongst the warrior ranks A wish of God speed and safe re turn for one of the youngest but most fearless of the brave fellows a New- marketer who would leave Canadas shores on the morrow to help uphold in war the honor of the Empire was the uppermost thought of your eye witness E A B NO IV Class Allie Story Clarence Toole Carrie Rose equal Scott Crone Minnie Brooks Garfield Oldham May Cooke Jr Illrlda Oldham Arnot Toole Susie Oldham II Eva Harrison Willie Grose equal Roe Crone Maggie Rose Lyman Rose equal Norman Crone Jr II Fred Grose Lillian Annie Powell I Pt II Gurney Brooks Emily Leet Lewis Jr Roy Graham Grant Oldham Tablet Etta Harrison Clifford Rose and Evelyn Jr Tablet Frank Kirton Walter Armstrong Jessie Toole Present every day Jessie Toole Story Eva Harrison Etta Har rison Roy Thomas Average attendance Jordan Teacher Montreal Oct The Webster house was almost completely destroy ed by fire this morning and several lives The hotel was a largo fivestorey atone and build ing The official announcement is made of the appointment of Mr I Harrington to bo superintendent of tho money order branch of the Department at Ottawa in succession to Mr I Mathesou who has retired COMPLETE WINTER STOCK OF SHELF HARDWARE Everything you want for tho house barn or Stable Up to Date Goods A ALLAN GO Reliable QUALITTf I We believe in the Best Quality of goods for our customers the best is none too good and Low Prices which enables us to turn our goods over quickly Our Motto toall Profits and Quick Returns lbs Raisins for Old Raisins per lb Nice Cleaned Currants per lb New Figs per lb Pure Boneless Codfish lb or lbs for- Pure kettlerendered Lard lb Fresh Sausage Ibi for A Dandy Japan at lb or J Nice Rich Cheese per lb for Try it and be convinced Large Bottles Extracts Beef Iron and Wine in pint bottles Coffee in lb tins this is a snap 50c Chase Sanborns Coffee lb bars Happy Thought Soap Good Salmon can Corn Starch and packet Lemons per dozen and Large Cabbage each Sweet Oranges per dozen 30c We have a large quantity of Cabbacjo Chocolates 10c lb for winter use at 30c dozen Central Telephone Office STARR why TO THE Hi for your If you can get them as cheap at home and trouble cave your When in need of a Suit OR AN Having purchased enlarge of graphic goods I am now pre pared to turn out photos at city prices and In city style I am also prepared to do an of Portrait Enlarging and copying at the err low est prices If you to tare money call on Graham Overcoat call and tee give you Just what you want carry the Largest Stock of Tailoring In Town both in Domestic and Im ported EVERYTHING or money refunded Call and Inspect the goods that arrived this week as their equal cannot In quality and price JONES OLD STAND Jas R McLaughlin Nor WANTED will to purchase Roadster and Horses- weighing from lbs These must Sound in Good Con dition and veare old be at the following placed Horns Hotel King 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