... AMUSEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MIARITZBURG, NATAL, FEB. 3, 1900.-Owing to the war almost at our very door, Scott's pretty little theatre remains untenanted, and companies are wise in giving South Africa a rest during 1900 ...

... THE PROFESSION AND THE WAR The following contributions have been added to the Daily Telegraph Shilling Fund:- Collected by Mr E. Graham-Falcon at the County Theatre, Bedford, per Mr H. M. Holles, 100s; proceeds of a raffle among members of Mr D'Oyly Carte's ...

... by the capitulation of Sedan. We, too, have had our little Sedans in South Africa during the present war -at Nicholson's Nek, Colesberg, and elsewhere ; but the tide of war has now turned in our favour with a rush, and for the 2,800 odd British troops ...

... settlement oi the coast of Africa could scarcelv have been a subject of less conzideration. Nevertbele9 a quarter of a century carlier, the })ncli h in ?? were sending home Large contributions to the Patriotic Furd for the war with Bonr. They wvez doing ...

... gnob.. a book atm tb I very apropos, at tbroving a strtong light on the ways and. character of the people with whem we are at war. Dr Keane is wellknowii as a writer on ethnology and onthropology. and waas not lona since Vce.;preaident of the kuthrepolnvioal ...

... back excellent material from South Africa, where, as mnany people know, he has gone, attached to a field hospital. He had offered his services as a Yeoman, but the answer was delayed, and, being determined to see the war, he had recourse to the other expedient ...

... awaiting orders for the front being present. Naturally the events in South Africa were depicted in many of the fancy costumes and perhaps the best was the personification of a war correspondent A feature of the evening was the lowering of the splendid act ...

... deceased had died from privation induced by want of proper care and nourishment. Although he bad served through the Crimyean War, Hill war s only granted - the miserly pension of Pd. a day some-four years ago, out of which he paid 2s. a week rent. Am ong the ...

... Special Service. TROOPS LEAVING FOR SOUTH AFRICA. Ten London and provincial companies Volunteer Royal Engineers to-dav each sent one oJicer and twenty-five non-commissioned officers and sappers to South Africa. The detachment had received special training ...

... disagree with my views on the war, give me credit. see, for inviting Mr Chamberlain to City-road. I had abso- ;bately noting to do with it. and I have used mry j utmaost infuence to prevent it. Mlethodism is divided i on the war, and we cannot afforcl to ...

... tLondoa: lhanairan and Hall.) THE REDEMPTION OF WAR. The Deau of Christ Church has sought, in his timely little volume of sermons on The Redemption of War(Longmans, Green, and Co.), to give such an account of war as may reconcile the two facts of its c ...

... Publishinz stores is strong in military hntaeiae. Ezra Read makes good us of. popular sirs- in two apropos pieces. -The War in Africa m umvbe ?? among deicriptive corn- positicns. inasmuch as atteirptsare mada to dopiot in jmunic '.Boers in ?? , ?? Long ...