... DESPITE the fact that the winter campaign has been twice interrupted by adverse meteoro logical influences, the first when the Newmarket celebration, about a month since, had to bo postponed a day, and last week when the concluding half of the very excellent programme at Nottingham had to be transferred to Monday, racing over fences and hurdles has never been attended with greater success and ...

... . SPORT in Spitzbergen is much tamer than Arctic sport is generally supposed to he by the public, whose mind is influenced by the pictures one sees in most Arctic works-- icebergs nearly- sinking under the mass of bears and walrus which swarm upon them. This is far from the case in Spitzbergen, for both these animals, which used to be so common there, have been driven north into the heavy ice, ...

... ¥lliman's iMik'N advance EXCELLENT^ 00 OD THING 1 ft ,-J 'Prepared only hy EllimanSons^g. slough. ENGLAND. ROYAL UNIVERSAL FOR HORSES>^ 1U L FOR ACHES PAINS .syw si. Fllimans ...

... CHAPPED HANDS. MARRIS'S ALMOND TABLETS Kemove all redness and roughness. Render ng tlie skin white, smooth, and delicate. OF A'.L PERFUMERS AND CHEMISTS. Win derate of the Proprietors-- R. HOVENDEN and SONS, 30-33, Corners St., W., 91-95, City Rd., E.C. LONDON. MORGAN CSi UNDER ROYAL AND THE MOST DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE. THE MORVI CAR, 4j? supplied to H.I.M. EmjresB Frederick of Germany. ...

... EVERT sportsman, I have no doubt, who has been accustomed for months past to participate in the enjoyment of flat-racing, feels, to a certain extent, oil' the line, when the season closes, and sport over fences and hurdles sets in. The windup of the Turf year under Jockey Club Rules, at Manchester last week, was exceptionally good, as the meeting was actually brought to an issue without any ...

... TEDDINGTON v. BROMLEY AT TEDDINGTON. ...

... . To hunt in Warwickshire has been a wish of mine for a long time, and last week it was fulfilled. I began with the NORTH WARWICKSHIRE in their Rugby country. One of the pleasures of hunting with a new pack is the sight of the hounds. In the idle way one takes up impressions, I had it firmly fixed in my mind that I should see a big throaty pack showing obvious traces of that bloodhound line ...

... . ON Saturday night Mr. George Edwardes presents at the Gaiety Theatre the new mu sical piece, The Circus Girl, and conse quently My Girl hail to look out for a fresh domicile. She has found one at the Gar- rick, where she is more happily placed than she was at the Gaiety, for, to tell the truth, she was a little too goody-goody lor the majority of that house's clientele, But still the piece ...

... PARKINS COTTO f |g|^ES25Sl m _ PARKINS COTTO p I °1 T CHRISTMAS PRESENTS I I f w 4 9 c I co W H CO iSs- 1 wCH 1 P f rt I I RED LEATHER GOODS, with Hunting Pictures in proper Colours. HUNTING APPOINTMENT SLATE (as Illustration), 16/6. Cigarettk Box 11/6 Pin Trays 6/9, 8/6 Match Box 8/6 Paperweights 6/9, 8/6 Stamp Box 7/- String Box 10/- WL And other useful articles. MATCH stand. SEND FOR NEW ...

... XMAS GIFTS in STERLING SILVER PRINCE'S PLATE (X.) Registered Design. U, mi,. nit- R„U.er and Cheese Stand, two Prince's Plate Bread and Butter and Cake Frame, with prettily decorated China Dishes and Kichly Fluted Hash or Breakfast Dish 10 in. long, with 16S. Two large Prmce's Plate Sugar Basin and Cream Jug, Fluted Ind Gilt inside, £4 5s. Loose Inner and -id Stand XVlt. Century Knives, 5s. ...

... THE ARCTIC LICHT CO., 179, RECENT ST., LONDON, W, Are now Showing a Special Lot of Novelties for use with the I A PEEEECT LIGHT FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES. WHAT THEY ARE 1 A novel form of candle holders, in outward appearance resembling fine wax candles. They are constructed on the same principle as a carriage or reading lamp, in which the candle, inclosed in a metal tube, is forced up as it ...

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