... George Tihomson. bolousb coroner, held at inquiry at the Oldhame Town Ifall into thie circuuistamibes attending the death of Thomas Hardy, vho on Thursday morniteg died at his reyi- tlence frons the effects of poisonl Thle Coroner, in addressing the jury, said ...

... a foregone conclusion in favour of the bonnta ! Probably the select few Xill have the self- den tal 311 to themselves. Thomas Hardy representsone of hiscleverestheroines as creating a new departure as a society entertainer by anpearing as a racontesuse ...

... in literature. It was ist on the whole, and in a double sense, a slow tl affair. Only the little piece written by Mr. S Thomas Hardy on the basis of one of his O' an well-known WNessex tales made a hit, aW er and even the hit of his piece was a lyrather ...

... tongue being more than atoned for by Ionty's pro- ficiency. Last Monday wvas a black one at the Record Office, where Sir Thomas Hardy has for years been regarded with an affection very different from the mere friendliness felt by civil servants to a chief ...

... - f:-riS of Thomas Hardy are the subject (zt ; . attractive illustration in an exhibition Ca e colours and oils and of drawings in and white, which has been opened in t. Any one visiting this charming C ii.ei wvill find that Mr. Hardy has not hiS plots ...

... programme. Among the ed writers who have already written plays for z le production in this way are Mvr. B3rrie, Mr. he Thomas Hardy, and 'Mr. Conan Doyle, and to 3 the list the name of Lady Colin is now of added. She has written some dainty and r Ofpretty ...

... had been found dead ii ia ?? behind her own house. The coron-er thiought tr tsh suffered from puerperal mania. - fa - Mr. Thomas Hardy, a young farmer. z esiding near lllneston, is lying, in a critical condition from in- t juries inflicted on him by two ...

... Pleas is being removed from Lancaster Castle to the Public Records Office in Lon; don, under the superintendence of Sir Thomas Hardy, keeper of the office. The documents are said to possess great public interest, and in Landon they will be properly a ...

... Cliief. Mr. T. Pearson, of ! Nateby, Lancashire, is third in the class for stallions foaled in 1891 with Shire Standard. Mr. Thomas Hardy, of There 1-fall Farm. Knuts- ford, is anotherI local prize winner, being second in the Celss for fillies foaled in 1890 ...

... this? In due comrse we shall see emblazoned in the boldest ?? and Kipling, Hall and Caine, George and Meredith, Thomas and Hardy, Marie and Corelli, Marion and Crawford, Stanley and Weyman, Richard and Black. more, and so on, and so on ...

... ASPINALL, BOROUOR CORONER, On the body of a boy ?? which was found on Saturday ast by a labourer named Thomas Hardy floating in the HuskifAson bock. Hardy called a police-offbcer, who took the body to the dead-house, It appearcdl to be thebobdyof a, boy about ...

... Government to assist Mr. Stevenson to pasd his Sunday Closing Bill for England duringthe present sessionof Parliament. -1M4r. Thomas Hardy seconded the motion, which ?? carried unanimously. BAYAAR AT THE PRILNARIONIWO HALL. - The interest in the eele of work ...