... . How is it possibles to remember what took place at an inter view when the best part of the time was occupied in listening to .. funny stories and holding one's sides with laughter? Mr. Eugene Stratton is a born storyteller, and his memory is as good as his mimicry. His features are wonderfully to England as a member of the Haverley Troupe in 1880 he was little more than a boy, or, to bo ...

... . THIS is the spring meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club, and is the most important gathering of our racing year. The New Zealand Cup, a handicap sweepstake of 20 sovs. each, with 1,000 sovs. added. two miles, is run on tho first day, and shortly after it the Welcome Stakes, a sweep for two-year-olds, with added money worth about £350. Ou the second day the mnrh- coveted Derhy is ...

... . The background of tho shield is composed of bronze. The regim-ntal badge in solid silver is at the top surrounded by an oval star with tablets at intervals upon which the various honours are engraved. Below the badge is a large solid silver panel bearing a football scene chased in relief, surrounded by palm branches and having a ribbon entwined bearing the inscription Company Football ...

... . MR. OSCAR WILDE'S new play deals with the life of the period in its dresses of to day. The gowns of Miss Julia Neilson are worthy of the fair wearer and that is saying much. They are in perfect taste and help to give a stamp of individuality to her rôle, for they are essentially correct. In the first act she has on a superb gown of cream brocaded silk. The bodice is decked with cream chiffon ...

... MDLLE. MfiALY. LONDON appears to be growing more cosmopolitan in its amusements every year, and nowhere is this more marked than on the Variety stage, foreign dancers and pantomimists we have ever had with us, but it is only of late that the chansonnette artist has really attracted the public. The first in her line to win especial attention was Mdlle. Guilbert, and now that famous chanteuse is ...

... . DOMINO WITH STABLE BOY. PROMINENT JOCKEYS SAM DOGGETT, W. SIMMS, AND F. TARAL. Mil. MJOLKIA,AND AND HIS STABLE EMPLOYES. GRA YESEND RACECOURSE-- TRYING TO GET OFF. CLIFFORD (WITH SIMMS) GOING TO THE POST. BETTING ON THE CKAVKsKND TRACK. ...

... HISS FLORENCE ST. JOHN. I SUPPOSE there is no more attractive personality on the English operatic stage than that of Miss Florence St. John. I don't say this because I have just had a two hours' chat with her-- in itself a sufficient justification for any display of ex aggerated partiality-- but because of tho irresistible charm she has used with such potent effect since the days of Madame ...

... BOMBAY GYMKHANA RUGBY FOOTBALL TOURNA MENT. i Hrs tournament for a handsome silver challenge cup, which is presented by the Bombay Gymkhana and is open to all comers, was played this year during the second week in October, and was won by the 2nd Battn. the Welsh Regt., who came up from Seeunderabad for the second time to compete for it. The following were the draws with the results 1st Round ...

... . THE reception given to Mr. Henry James's new play, Guy Domville, on its production by Mr. George Alexander on Satur day night, was of a kind likely to result in the piece obtaining critical appreciation in excess of its intrinsic merits. Critics are very human creatures after all: and their chivalry naturally revolts at the spectacle of a refined litterateur like the author of Daisy Miller, ...

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... . LAST Saturday's League fixtures (First Division) were of a most sensational kind. The weather in most cases was dead against good play, and in nearly all the games the winning teams were considerably aided by luck. There was snow on the ground at Wolverhampton when the Wanderers and Everton met before a fairly large attendance. The visitors were without Latta, but in Geary they had an ...

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