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... CYCLING AT CATFORD BRIDGE-- TIIE FIVE JIILES' PROFESSIONAL CONTEST. Field-JIaislinl Visconnt, Wolseley, JIajor-General Lord Jletliueh, General Sir H. E. JVocid, Commander-in-Chief. commanding Home District. Qnartermaster General. REVIEW OF THE LONDON GARRISON. ...

GOLF JOTTINGS

... . BERLIN GOLF.-- It is a satisfactory sign of the times to find that the royal and ancient game has at last made some head way in Germany. I remember not so very long ago discussing with a German the chance of golf ever obtaining a foothold in his country; and although a keen and ardent sportsman him self, he professed grave doubts as to the game appealing much to German tastes, although he ...

A FINE TIGER

... . TIGER-SHOOTING will always attract the true Briton, on account of the spice of danger attached to it, although gener ally the sportsman who engages in it is placed in a safe position when the beat commences: the poor, ill-clad natives, who drive the game from his cover, depend on the nerve and good shooting of the sahib-log to save them from a terrible mauling, or, maybe, sudden death. The ...

NOTES FROM PARIS: M. ALPHONSE DUVERNOY'S HELLÉ AT THE OPÉRA

... NOTES FROM PARIS. (mom our special correspondent.) M. Alphonse Duvernoy's HellA at the OrfutA. ANY doubts that might have existed as to the importance of this production are set at rest to-day, if only by the opposition the work encounters in certain quarters. M. Alphonse Duvernoy has had the courage to call it an opera, and has had, moreover, the good and deserved luck to achieve a ...

PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN H. E. DAVIS

... . AT the conclusion of the business of the Gravesend Town Council, the other day, an unusual scene was witnessed in a presentation to Captain H. E. Davis, of the Grand Theatre, Gravesend, by the Mayor. The facts in connection with the award of a medal and diploma to the captain by the French Government, in recognition of fire brigade services, have already been related, and we now have only to ...

INSPECTION OF PORTSMOUTH BRIGADE OF YEOMANRY AT BOURNEMOUTH

... INSPECTION OP PORTSMOUTH BRIGADE OF YEOMANRY AT BOURNEMOUTH. ON Saturday the Hants and Dorset Regiments of Yeomanry assembled on the East Common, Bournemouth, for their annual inspection. The weather was fine, and very large numbers of spectators repaired to the Common to witness the inspection by the Commander-in-Chief. Excellent order was preserved by a force of mounted police in charge of ...

THE LUDLOW CLUB SPRING MEETING

... THE LUDLOW CLUB SPUING MEETING. UNFORTUNATELY but few of the old-fashioned country Steeplechase meetings now remain. Those that do, however, are much appreciated and remind us of the good old times when one went chasing with less luxurious surroundings, but when better horses were seen, and I think, taken all in nil, better sport than at the present day. Still the public appetite for luxury ...