... I With reference to the eleventh Theatrical Gala, which took place last week on the ground of the Liver- pool Football Club, Anfield, in aid of three local medical charities and three theatrical and musical benevolent schemes, it is announced that the amount taken at the gates was nearly g260, and the floral and sales department, which was conducted by artistes from the local places of ...

... RANA, FOR POSE. That is Mr HEana's trade mark and standing adver- tisement- Hana, for Pose, and the profession are well acquainted with the quality of his works. But, though Mr Hana is ever studious of drama subjects, there is one department in which he stands almost unrivalled, and that is the difficult art of posing and photographing children, of whom be turns out quite the most natural ...

... THE MAN IN THE IRON MA.SK. r A Pomantic Drams, in Five Acts, 1, Suggested by an Episode in a The Vicomte De Bragelonne e of. Alexandre Dunas, If Played for the First Time at the Adelphi Theatre, ,, on March 11th, 1b99. e Louis ?? M OMNras e Philippe Marchiail.. ?? FuRBES S Due De Vermandoi .Miss VALLI VALLI S Cardinal Mazarin ?? Mr CHARLIS SuDENa g Monsieur D'lierblay . . Mr W. H. VzaLeo ...

... i? 1A SEWldAN %OJ RD. - (F'Ro sA PGcrAOOCORESPOENyWT):' - 1 -RBury March Fair,' as the jbanas~hireosh0WiD55 teno it, is intimately. hound up *itchthe observance of ?? or Mothering ' Sunday. -The-modern show- man, whether-he knows it or not, is deeply indebted to these old Church festivals. Bury has been famous, for centuries for its Qbservance of Simnel or Mother- ing Cake Sunday. ...

... Mr Osman Edwards, in a very interesting lecture on the above subject to the Playgoers' Club at the Hotel Cecil on Sunday last, said :-The Japanese stage com- bines with esthetic charm mnore lofty attributes. It has always aspired to instruct and elevate the masses. It teaches history better than the schoolmaster, and morality better than the priest. Its performances for nearly three centuries ...

... A ratirme benefit for the Seaford Convalescent Eo~pital was gi'en at the Coronet Theatre, Notting. hill 'to Monday. and the long and varied pro- gralime attracte i a large audience, all the higher. i.Ie in the house being occupied. In the course r tile afttrtoon the Rlev. Dr. Donald M'Leod, one of ?? ttwirbers of the committee of management, '1ore the curtain and made a statement rioe rlig rhe ...

... MR. LESLIE STUART. MR LISLIE STUART, generally admitted to be one of the most popular song-writers of the day, his composi- tions being at the present time sung and played as the songs of the day, in every part of the world where English is spoken, was born in Southport just over thirty years ago. He has had a career most varied, a record of which could be made extremely interesting if ...

... ; BRIGADIER-GENERAL MACDONALD ( FIGHTING. MAC ) TO SUCCEED GENERAL WAUCHOPE : THIS popular officer, at ?? India, is : ordered to South' Africz to take command of the Highland Brigade, and is welcomed on' every side as the best possible'appoint- ?? thiat ' could be made, since the gallant Highlander, quite apart from the high and conspicuous merits wbich qualify him for th&: post, is' ordered ...

... FOREIGN PRAISE. OF BRITAIN. THE special' .correspondent of,the Daily Telegraph at Vlienna ,sends the following extracts from Austrian papers, which are strong in their sympathy with the Boers: It is, noticeablethat: all the papers pro- fessedly Angiophobe express admiration of the, courageous attitude of the English nation. A. paper which is au strong friend of the Boers, nvrites:., ?? ...

... ,STRONG CONFIRMATION,: OF THE HORRIBLE TALES OF7 BOER TREACHERY.:- TItR special correspondent of the Daily. Telograph at Maritzburg, in his article, Bond or Briton, dated October 27,;speaks in no uncertain tone as to the tales of cruelty and treachery on the part of the Boers, which have aiready reached us. He says:- The Boers are accused in many cases of killing the wounded. I was ...

... WHIT XO 4DAY -CART-HORSE IN; no other city'o f'the world, probably, co.uld such a. display of horseflesh-cart- horse flesh,- to be precise - have been witnessed as that which turned out on Whit Monday'for the annual pardde. in' Rlegent's Patk, And in no other city of the world Would shch an enormous' crobd have stgoo .'fo hours. aikle deep ,i nmud, and wvith adrizzling rain soaking through ...

... | .0 :NEW -AND IMPROVED -|REGULATIONS fFOR VOLUNTEERS. UNDER the new regulations framed for~the purpose of'-securing a higher standard of .efficiency anmongst Volunteers, themen will 'be called: upon to fire at 400.jto..600 yards .anges'. The days of the 200 yards maximum Upracticerailge. are at last doomed. :.It-has been found by the authorities that many corps hiad a woful percentage of ...