... Devonshire Regiment, with twenty-eight men all told, was taking cover. Late in the after noon, these were made prisoners by a party of Boers. The guns, however, remained where tlicy had been left, for the enemy shirked the risk of removing them. A battery ...

... manding the nearest British force. Someone was needed who could steer by the stars across the long miles of desert to guide the party who were taking the wounded to the wells, and then to ride on and take the news to General Buller. The only man who had the ...

... received numerous rewards. He seems to have had a penchant for forming clubs, for in the winter of 1886, he, with a small party of Tooting Bee players, was presept at the opening ind formation of the Cromer Club, which, as everybody knows, is now one ...

... indeed, by way of a beginning of the New Year an action which had been preceded at Dordrecht by the bold extrication of a party of Cape Mounted Rifles who had remained behind in a donga rather than desert a wounded officer by Captain Montmorency, one ...

... MERR1WBE> 8sT. IOLBS. (V. TURNER), I i 1-1-- mm iimu iMa.iiininnwimmii VIEW TAKEN FROM SOW THE MELBOURNE CUP THE VICE-REGAL PARTY AWAITING MR. POWER'S ARRIVAL TO PRESENT TROPnV, TAB MELBOURNE CUP PINISH (WHICH A CLERK OP THE COURSE DOES NOT SEE) MR. H. ...

... setting of coagulated mud. Other capital illustrations of the great Colonial race day are given in a view of the Vi- vRegal party, and a repre sentation of the presentation b^ Lady Brassey of the Cup to the owner, Mr. H. Power. lis addition to the big stake ...

... as is shown by their significant motto, I am ready. Although he is by no means well off, Lord Lovat is a great matrimonial parti. lie is the sixteenth holder of his fine old title. lie is nine- and-twenty, and, though a devoted Churchman, is an enthusiastic ...

... THE LATE MR. SCHNADHORST. By the death of Mr. Francis Sclinadliorst, which took place on Jan 2, at Putney, the Liberal Party has sustained an undoubted loss. Boim in Birmingham in 1840, and educated at King Edward's School in that town, he became, in ...

... Friends' League held last week in the Empress Rooms, Kensington, was an exceedingly pretty affair. It was, of course, a smaller party than that at the Mansion House-- taking place this week--but it was very charming. The rooms are well suited to such a purpose ...

... Duchess and their children actually forms part of the Royal Hospital, and includes the splendid hall where the principal parties given by the Commander-in-Chief and his wife are always held. The Duchess of Counaught and the Princesses hope to be settled ...

... similar nature. Suffice it to say that he is brimming over with good- humoured fun, and is the life and soul of any convivial party that may be so favoured as to number him in its midst. At the London Sketch Club at one of the meetings of which, by-the-bye ...

... the South London Infantry Volun teer Brigade. At Southampton, where the Volunteers embarked on Satur day, the Lord Mayor and party arrived about noon, and were received by General Sir Baker Russell, Colonel Staepole, Sir Francis Evans, M.P. chairman of the ...