... EL ETII{N NEWS. INQCE DIVISION. 2'1R. RICTUARf JOHNSON-'S REPLY. _r, itehari Johnson. ?? of Inee Hall, presi- Cr ...

... The following mails are despatched from Liverpool to-day;- To the Continent of Europe (joining morning mail from Lendon).-Box closes G.P.O. 9 30 p.m. and 11 p.m. daily. To France, Belgium. and the Continent of Europe (London night ?? closes ?? 1 toIp.m.; with id. late fee, 1 35 1,.m. Letters pre- pai jd. late fee may be posted in Lime-street Station until 1 58 p.m. To A ustria, Belgium, ...

... All the needful preparations for carrying out the 40th annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, the tenth held at Bisley, had been completed on Saturday, although the earliest competitions will not take place until to-day. The amount of the prizes given in money is about the same as last year, £800, exclusive of challenge prizes and prizes in kind, but a number of im- portant changes ...

... WAsnSQroz, MON1ML The Agricultural Burea msued to-day itszport as follows on the condition ?? improve. :ment duzing the month except in Georgia and Oklahoma, which declined 3 point8 each. Special attention is called to the fact that no aemnnt 'whatever is taken of loss resulting from the over- d'lowof the Brazosriver in Texas, The reporta from the flooded region were rcived %just before the ...

... and Wardmi 1Tilu RI The Bicester and Warden Hill Hunt Puppy Show will be held at the Kennels on Tucsday next. g ?? are pleased to hear that Mr. Bert. E. Holi- day, the third son of Mr. F. D. Holiday, estate agent and auctioneer, of Bicester, has passed the Final Exam- i illtion of the Incorporated Law Society. Mr. Hoh-I day served his articles of clerkship with Air. GeorgeL Coggins, of ...

... Discting tbe Tithes Bill. Tfm House of (?oxncmjs went into C'ommittee b.o t night OiI the Tithe Bill, and that unlucky| - . . . I ,. .. ! measure Swas subjected to a searchn analysi c searchin anlv 1 which would havo destroyed a much stronger case. For this Bill, indeed, there is no case at all, and for one very simple reason. It proposes to pay half the rates of men whoa1 not really rated. ...

... PEACE MEEFONG AT ST. tARTIN'S TOWN dIILL. CHEERS FOR MIAJtUBn HILL. A well-attonderl and etithusiaistc meeting was held last night at St. MN'arun 't Tolwn Iall in oppo- ?? to war with trio TIransvaal. Mr. G. W. . I R ftu ie11 ;treeided;. r Mir. ?? -. Claydrien rad a nurnher of letters nnd s ?? which had been received. Among thesr, ' were the ?? Coleridge: 1I consider that uindr present ...

... T !E PI-'E1::PEA'VB N op (ouM MO S AND1) 1FOO fITATHS. ANLMlGACMATION OF SOCIETIES. Mr. G. J. 7 :a ' :: pr's dod osvr tlha' anuratial st~~t'eTC !'Otie? ?1 O' ?? iu- tiroraths T rr' r- fLt'e' Soc t.:e liel3 at ole Royal unlted Mer-vi-' lrst:;u.-: ?? y. v. a r:di said t tll;s t riot be sut - pos-di3 .a a a n 1reir.~ rad not iw'e I ld:t! rceer.:y rmat. -1-- er Se- har. bs'er reu;s b:n at wor--k ...

... IFRANCE AND GERMANY . THE KAISER'lS OYERTURES COOL RECEPTION IN PARIS& THE EMPEROR THREATENEXh (FROM OUR CouanroimN'nS.) PARIS, Sunday Ngit The joke of the Boulevard is that the FEm- peror William hopes to attend the Dreyfus triaL It issaid to be likely that he will visit St. Malo after the yachting at Cowes. The feelers on the subject have, however, not been well received, nor has his ...

... SALES AT CHRISTIE'.'S. LORD CuLLIXGWOOnS SWORDS. The sales at Moessrs. Christie s during tle last twoI clays continue to he of the highest interest and importance, and the great ?? in King-street are constantly crowded with sightseers and connois- seurs. 'Tho whole of Wne~lesd-jv and a large part of yesterday were ocoupied in tihe dispersal of the valuable colluction of old English and foreign ...

... HIS LAST REQE3T. L2 'George Ferguson, you have gone a iittle tooi far. Pale with indiguation and outraged pride, ti ce the young woman looked him sternly in the face. aceo Why Laura, he stammered, in a nelpless W of confusion, 1-l-ah-er-I didn't think you d wonld care. U O a ro- Didn't think I should care. she echoed, S rs. with freezing mockery Did you think, sir, r I that an ...

... TIIE FRANCHISE SCHEME Id._ : As to the franchise proposals, a sub- sta:ntial advance upon the Bloermfon- teiin offer, and as to redistribution a grant of four ad(ditional seats in ech le House tothe Rand, without a counter- h balancing grant to pusely Baer con- c , stituencies, except, possibly, in the h cases of Pretoria and Zoutpausberg: 1e this summary seems (says the West t ?? mmnster ...