... JtaeHpa Harry, ;2, Thomas Chester. i.om.ds butter: llenrv Lyon, Hall, near Warri&f. ton; 2, V. Thomas Nantwieh. Cattle.—Bull above two years old Thomas Rawesy 2, B. Chadwick, j3, Charles Bull, above one and under two years old :1, Thomas Partou, Crewe : ...

... book of Ecclesiastes, and I would sooner have erne volume of Browning, with his cheery optimism, than all the works which Thomas Hardy, Olivo Schreiner, and authors of that dreary school have Written. j trade meeting at Leeds on Saturday Mr. John Burns ...

... For the former the ouly candidate in the field is Mr. R. Billcliffe (Labour). In Albert Park the candidates will be Mr. Thomas Hardy (L), Sunnyside, Broughton Lane ; Mr. R. Holland (C), the retiring councillor; and Mr. J. Heaviside (Labour). Mr. John Balmer ...

... tempestuous days! In winter the elm perhaps makes more noise than any other tree. Almost ever? species of tree, as Mr. Thomas Hardy has pointed out, has its own peculiar voice. The sound produced by an avenue of tall elms during a storm of wind may be ...

... about bis horso winning the treble event Two Thousand, Derby, and Lnger. i 8 to start for the Ascot Derby next weak. Mr. Thomas Hardy spent of lost at Dublin the guest of Lord Houghton, who ia amongst hia most enthusiastic admirers. Sir James Fergußson ...

... about the poker. Yankee bluff is an article that is unsurpassed in its own particular line. «> is understood that Mr. Thomas Hardy intends abandon problems and to revert his earlier methods. He feels that he has been misjudged. The persistent misconception ...

... unimportant, our modern writers are not losing the substance of literature. may by», as he says that George Meredith and Thomas Hardy will find an enduring place among our greater novelists, but will be a {place low down tho ladder. When the Manchester ...

... lii'dy; 2, Jchn Lymm. Weaning foal, for draught purposes: 1, Thomas Hardy; 2, John Brown; 3, Tlicimas Hardy. Pair of most for agricultural purposes: 1. John Smith, Knutsfurd: 2, Thomas Hardy. Draught horse mare or getting, in tho show yard: ...

... Woodall. Mr. Hamilton informed the committee 'that the promoters had settled with Mr. Thomas Hardy, of Bui well Park, near Nottingham. Mr. Fitzgerald said Mr. Hardy, for whom appeared, was anxious to have it known that when he purchased the Bulwell Park ...

... Two-yearold gelding or filly: 1, Thomas Hardy; 2, Lord Egerton Tatton. District—Pair of draught horses, mares, or gelding? : 1, John Marsh, Grappenha.il; 2, John Smith, Kuutsford! Draught horse, mars, or geldimr : 1, Thomas Hardy ; 2, Peter Davies, Warburton; ...

... in the autumn. If ,she can give a worthy successor to Little Lord Fauntleroy her new work will very stated that Mr. Thomas Hardy is meditating the dramatisation of his Tess of the D'Crbervilles, with a view to the embodiment of his unhappy heroine ...

... Ludgate Magazine. 'Tlhe question put to them was, Wiich of their own books they preferred. Mr. &T-orgc Meredith, Mr. Thomas hardy, Airs. Huraphry Ward, Mr. Ilenry James, and Mr. Anthcuiy 1ope prefer to leave the question unanswered. Sir Walter Besant ...