... THE WAGNER FBSTIVAL PERFORM A-CES& ?? I (thOM OUR COt3SPONDEST.) - BAYREUTH, FamxY. Active preparations for the festival perform- ances at the *Vagner Theatre have been going as for the last four weeks. The ?? Empress, who is now at Kissingen taking the waters, is expected here shortly, and the Emperor will join her, as the perform- ances are this time given by his special command. The King of ...

... TEE ROYAL GRANTS COMMITTEE| The Press Association says: We understand that the attitude of the Opposition leaders respecting the grandsons of her Majesty outside the direct line of succession caused another hitch in the proceedings of the Royal Grants Committee yesterday. The claim of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Morley is, that a compromise hbaing been agreed uoon, whereby the Prince of Wales will ...

... TO-DAr. -9-- The Prince of Wales at the Royal College of MusiO ,Meeting, Marlborough House, noon. East Maryleboneo ?? Liberal Meetings soe Election News. East India Association. Meeting, Westminster Town to Hall, 3. 1) Beaumont Hall, Ylower Show, 7. A Leytonstone Liberal Club, Garden Party, 3.30. Farewell Converszm iet r.Hny George. Society of British Artists, Suffolk-street, 7. Inspection of ...

... ITHE CONVENT OF THE VISION ON 4,MOUNT BIZEN. I Signor XercateLi, the ?? .of the 6ge Pet cornezre di Napodi at Massowah, writes from Bizen I on June 14th, 1889- aft Ive arrived here aftr a billy march of twelve E boars. We found ourselves at a point celled by the nativea the Chor Aokker. We were very hungry and thirsty, but there was no water. An Askari had the happy thought of digging a ...

... di SHFA'S TON. The Shah, accompanied by his suite, drove to the Liverpool landing-stage on Monday. and went for a trip on the river on the Cunard tender Skirmisber. He landed at the Alexandra Dock, and inspected the Cunard liner Umbria, afterwards retu ning to the Town Hall, where an address was presented on behalf of the corporation. A luncheon follolodel, and the Shah afterwards left for ...

... BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. THURSDAY EVENING'S SPITING. The hall seemed to be more crowded than ever at the opening of proceedin!s on Thursday evening, and so great was the interest displayed that few left it before eleven o'clock, the sitting being prolonged till a quarterof an hour before midnight, Citizen Brrtaud was elected as French President, one of the Portu- guese delegates being ...

... T At Bloomabury county court Judge Bacon and a jury on Monday heard an action for damage, tres- pass, and assault, the plaintiffs being Mr. Alfred Bloom and Mrs. Jane Bloom, his wife, of 35 and 36, Hilldrop-crescent, Camden-town, and the defendant Mr. John Morgan, a public-house broker.-Mr. Bloom claimed 251. for damage to furniture and trespass, and Mrs. Bloom claimed 401. for assault.- The ...

... I THE POSITION ON THE. NILE. (f0M 0M COBRSPONDBNT.)' CAIRO, TLSnV 1I60. ?? has sent the Sirdas's proca- M ination to the Rhahfa for him to answer. M Eir F. Grenfell bas left korosko, and will n arri~o at Assouan to-day. 0 . THotn6t REUTgR'S io=AGRX CAIRO, JOT 17, UiniOaT. C PrisQnqs. #Aikn to-dav sate tat mfnii of o Wid-el-Neioomi's eairs press him to ?? t terms, but that he will never yield; ...

... traox orit COMIRSPWONDEI.) BEEW=, Fainjx NiFon. LI Thexcetaieelce Zeitwiy totdaycomplain s of the Cz's 5 delay in returning the Emperor W oli ws visit, which took place a year ago, and goes on to t express surprisetbat the Czar h ad not even written a line explaining the cause of his re-g mniesness, though such a letter would have prv- evl dueed an admirable effect. Thisartice is some- m3 what ...

... The lntercolonial IMail Rtoute. T'E Vancouver Board Of Trade has published a circular letter ad. dressed to the Board of Trade of Sydney, Neew South Wales, upon the advantages of a line of British mail steamers between those two places. The representatives of an American firm have been working bard to obtain a sub- sidy for their own boats, and with that object in view they bavo made the most ...

... A Robber Stronighold. Tni blue hills of Devon are faditg far astern. The heights of Exmoor, the tuaged coastline, the little ! ports whose strects like stairways rise steeply from the sea, are vanishing in the uist of dawn. From the lighthouse tower of Hartland shines a feeble gleam that *- shows the enatin to be nesr, and 'gins to pale his ineffectual fire. On the smooth water whole fleets ...

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