... taught on Easter Day to look on death, not as coming to destroy, bnt rather as Christ coming to save. During the Service a special Easter hymn, composed by Archdeacon Farrar, commencing With trembling fears and streaming tears, Ere dawned the Easter Day, ...

... THE RISING IN BECHUANALAND. [RECTER'S SPECIAL SERVICE. J CAPETOWN, Jew 2. The remains of Ernest Reynolds and of Kenneth Mackenzie, who were killed with the Gilford patrol at Easter last year, were brought to Bulawayo yesterday and reinterred there with ...

... coincident with that of our Lord's resurrec- tion, was celebrated with many solemnities by the ancient Saxons. Easter and Ostern signify rising, and the term becomes both appropriate and poetical if we accept the theory that Eostre and Aurora (Eos ...

... ? rt _ wont to linger, the old Easter customs are unheeded by the rising generation and well- ?? t ?? by the old. A relic of ancient t ?? es survives, however, in the practice, which ,1 rtill gonen^ oi presenting Easter eg»s at this geason. though it ...

... EASTER AMUSEMENTS. METROPOLITAN THEATRES Golden Easter used to be the time of all others catered fcr by theatrical managers, but this year no less than five West-end houses greet Easter Monday witii closed doots, of which some, however, will be opened ...

... The Prime Minister, yeaterday announced the date cf the rising of the Houae of Commoas fjr tl c Easter holidaya and the date when it will again rea-.emble. The rapiaity with which Supply haa betn dealt with in committee haa en-bled tba Frime Minister ...

... THE EASTER MANCEUVRES. THE BATTLE OF BROWNDOWN. PORTSMOUTH, Monday. Tn a drizzling rain and half a gale of wind the troops paraded early this morning to take part in the Easter Monday field day. Some corps had to parade as early as six o'clock, for the ...

... The STRAifD, having prolonged the run of Mr. Brough - burlesque of The Field of tbe Cloth of Gold from th. Easter of lastsyear till the Easter of the present year a term including 293 representations -will celebrate the holiday season by a new extravaganza ...

... With refer.. nee to the conveyance of troops to Dover and Eastbourne ou Easter Monday, it ia officially notified that although the volunteer corps whose attendance is autho- rised will have to defray the travelling expenses to and from those places, the ...

... THE EASTER MANOEUVRES. THE SHAM FIGHT AT DOVER. The great day of the Dover manoeuvres of 1886 has proved a most unqualified success, and in this respect it is a fitting conclusion to the most in- teresting and inatructive series of operations which began ...

... EASTER SERVICES. The Easter festival was celebrated yesterday in the metropolitan churcees with all the heartiness and jcyous- Bess that has ever characterised the annual commemoration of the Resurrection. It would hava been diiicjlfc f..r a arrange* ...

... THE EASTER MANOEUVRES. ?? COLONEL METHUEN'S COLUMN. DOVER, Sunday. •Tie VtAvmtcera of Colonel Methuen's Ashford _ ?? and indeed all who are engaged in the I i.r -£***••■ operations, have now fairly made up ?? ' ir nun.-s thai in regard to weather the ...