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... SMOKING COlN'CERT AT SOUTH-| I SEA. ReIEVIV AL OF THE MIMNESINGERS. By waly of promoting a proposed revival of the In li 1i linsluers o of P1ortanioutlh musical n id achievements, an invitation stioking concert was Ifi leon Friday hold at the Portland Hall, Sclutlisea. ti ?? The place of assembly la-d been tastefully (p se illuminated and adorned for the occasion. Lines L4 1sor variegated ...

... LATEST SCRATCHI NGS. 1 1n sitting on the style, Mary, TDat you've mailataiued before, t It's tuo'too tendencies, mily love, V Ifave craummped imy shelesl' store. C Timoie aunual bills from Worth, Mary, Irv cheque book OuMte uproots, t 13,,,ides the lace 1nd.- gim-es, ulary, Tile tweenty-button boots. c Tihe liamionds 3 ou affect, Mary, c (Quite extirpate my pile, c Anl so I'm sitting down, ...

... ld ANNUAL DINNER. ot The annual dinner of the subscribers to the ts above was held on Thursday evening at the Mt Albany Hotel,. Commenrcial-road, when about C. forty gentlemen sat down to a recherchd repast, s. which reflected the highest credit on the cuisine ie of the establishment. The chair was occupied ce by Mr. F. Power (Hon. Secretary), and the vice. iychair by Mr. G. Ellis, and amongst ...

... EMSWOR'H 'FLOWVER SHOW.. .* The sixteenth annual exhibition of the Em[Is- jup e.r, worth and Neighbourhood Horticultural anld atlt .eFloral Society wits heild onl Wednesday afternoon C *ds anid evening at Highlands, Emasworthi. The ex-pr m- hibita were cofttairi~l ift two marqsiees. On the hid -it whole the several classes filled as well as in I at pr~~u~ years, but in those for ...

... 'THE MYSTERY OF ri I 11 NUMBER NINE. -! 1 -i ?? CHAPTER XXIX. ii HANK YOU, I CAND 5INANAGL' SY OWN AFFAIBS. t re The letters of Constance ISmith were shadowy WI tscrawls of hair lines, such ais mi~iti be prodalndod by spirit hands for tro annisemnert of fond believers who have taken pen anid papcr and pot Iout thle gap. e, One of these dimu scrawls informed MrIt. Per- it cival that Mrs. ...

... LITERARY COMPETITION,. --bi PRIZES to lize Value of ;£2 WEEAL F ?? be goven. IST PRIZE, 15S.; 20ND, 10s. ; 3RD, 7S. 6n. ; 4TH, 5s.; STH. 2s. 61.Ci NOTICES TO CONTRIBUTORS. h] M. A. S. (Ann's Hill, Gosport)-Your contribution Is l underconsidoration. C.0. (Playfair-road, Soutlisea)- Uncle Ingot appeared about six months since. IS L.I. (Marmsion-road, Southsea).-You have 6mitted to Hi torward ...

... THE PASSION MUSIO AT THE CATHEDRAL. I T'ls music known as the ' Matthew Passion Of J. S. Bach wnas performed at a special Lenten service in the Cathedral, Christ Ohuroh, on Friday evening last. The Passion of our Lord, as narrated by the Evangelists, hbs been mado tihe subject of musical works of all kinds of merit end elaboration, starting fromn the anciout chanting of the Gospel for Good ...

... (ALL RIGHTS RESELVED.I I pi BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, 3Y Author of Dr. Jekyll ard Mr. Hyde, to T Prcasrre Island, .Kidcnapped, etc. to Sp BOOOK ZI---TTHE MOAT HO USE. h CHAPTER I. fo DIcKr Asxs QUESTIONS. as The Moat House stood not far from the rough lV iorest road. Externally, it was a compact Se rectangle of red stone, flanked at each corner by I a round tower, pierced for archery ...

... I LITERARY AND OTHERiNO°TISO. * Hit~torittWc 71iwas-Oitniw Po'tf By Montague J2UlJtisbW CAptasin R., Chichele Profer of Modem stoty: This little work at a popular pric, 3s. id., sho iumbl r rci attention from a, wide circle of readers. A number.o people with a tastne for history know very littleabout the Cinque Ports,. not evntheirnaioes perhaps. These pages notionl give othlenecess'cry ...

... Lt- Le Follet thinks there is little to remark as to at ,new fashions in omtdoor, or, indeed, a6y-dressee ea for day wear. Dressmaker, seem to have. rn- he centrated their attejition on evening toilettes. rs that is to say, as far as the productionof novel. as ties, the fashions, and materials described ha ous is December number- being those in the ascendant ut for thle beginning of the New- ...

... PRIZES to the ?? of r2 WEEAL J' ; 'will be given. a JSTPRIZE, 1S.; 2ND, 10S.; 311D, S. 6D.; 4TH, 5S.; s 5TH. 2s. 6D. Open to Me Readers of fate IIHzmrp sire Telegraph and IE'Eveinha News. A ?? THE INN ON THE RIBBLE. I At the bottom of Fishergate, which at the e time I write of was the principal street in a Preston, abutting on the river Ribble, wits a small inn, kept by one Stephen Bell, ...