... MOELAWK MINSTRELS. The Mohawk Minstrels celebrated on Saturday v evening the opening of their twenty-seventh year at t the Agricultural Hall by a special programme consist- jag chiefly of favourite plantation melodies. During the period that has elapsed since this well-known troupe of minstrels began their merry career the fashion in things theatrical has been frequently changed, but thea ...

... EIN UNBESCHRIEBENES BLArT. Comedy, in Three Acts, by Ernst Von WolzoVen Produced at the New Theatre, Oct. 25th, 1MY&. Professor Mohl ?? Herr Lesit s Homann ?? Herr MERTEN Curt ?? Herr CLAUDIUS Aanslie ?? Frau CARLSKN Gertrud ?? Frau NUSCHe BUTZE Paula ?? Frdulein TALIANSKY Deggenmeyer ?? HOLTIAUS Theresa ?? Frau HILLER Lena ?? Fraulein CARLISN Ein Diensuran ?? Herr FL xK (FROM OTR OWN ...

... I -- - -_ 5 Mr Charles Wyodham has decided to open his new 5theatre with a eia o ai Gariek a play which 3 Mr Wyndham, since the death of . A. Sothern, ehas practically made his ow. fh hitry ftepa is curious, and in a measure half tragic. It was, as all the world of the stage knows, written by the late T. W Robertson, the founder of the Caste school, which caused a complete revolution in the ...

... LONDON, TUESDAY, Nov. 7. I About £130,000 has been received by the Lord Mavor on behalf of the Transvaal War I . I .- . I . .. . I ~U lt4 Ur Ulon unail 01 lone Lransva A ar Funds. Yesterday's contributions included a donation of a thousand pounds from the Queen, and gifts of 250 guineas from the Prince of Wales, and £100 from the Duke and Duchess l or York. Telegraphing to a Crimean ...

... TUE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH., ADVANCE FROM ESTCOURT, FRERE BRIDGE DESTROYEDj BEACON HILL FIGHT. THE BRITISH LOSSES; 14 KILLED, 50 WOUNDED. ANOTHER NAVAL BRIGADE. DISPA fUH FROM BULLER. | ir Redvers Buller has telegraphed to the Secretary of State for War as followv : (Received Nov. 2'7, 9.49 a.m.) Pietermaritzburg, Nov. 26, 10.45 p.m. Hildyard, from E-steourt, made successful attack 23 Nov. ...

... L.C C. AND THE GLADST*NE EMORIAL. ALTERNATIVE SITES. As briefly announced in these columns the other - 3day, the Improvements Committee of the London County Council have fallen in wxith the desire of the Gladstone Memorial Committee that, on or !about the place in the new street from Holborn, where it will meet the great crescent leading into the Stn D. site be appropriated for the monument ...

... THE BOER APPEAL TO CKPE IFRIKANDERS. (nrorcxf nnnt'S AcGNaT.) CAPETOWN, Oct. 30. T h1e following is a traslja1tion of the appeal of the Free Steto to the Duttch of Cape Colony. It has been extenvivelv circuiated in the dis- I trnrts of the Colony bordering on the Freo I State i An appeal frmrn the ?? of the Orange Frr Staawto all Airikandrs aknd our symipathisers re'sid- ing i the Cape Colony ...

... Clit Nlack No social problcm is involved in Mr. Sydney Grundy's latest gleaning from the rich fields of Dumasian romance, nor does psychology lend its art ul aid in the setting forth of the story of the love of Dr. Cornelis van Baerle, the enthusiastic cultivator of tulips, for Rosa Grylhus, the beautiful daughter of the grim jailer of Puytenhof. The B/ark 7tip is, in brief, a eimple, old ...

... THE PIGEON LOFT IN NOVEMBER. I Th's ie the time of year when many breeders' of fancy pigeons are disposing of their surplus birds, an opportunity which beginners, or those wishlig to improve their stock, should take advantage of. It is, perhans, as well for a novice to commence with a breed that is easily Irept and reared, and which does not; reguire the assistance of foster parents to bring ...

... I FORIEIGN EPITOME. PROF. FDRDINAND TiREMANN, who oc- cupied the chair of chemistry at Berlin university. died on Tuesdav at Meran. I A NEw YORX correspondent states that, for failing to respond to a summons to serve as a juror, ML. Cornelius Vander- bilt was fined 221. A NIEw type of Whitehead torpedo with a marked indrease in speed and a longer range is, it is said, about to be adopted by ...

... I THAT TAIrS SU0EVZ OF ALL TNE WORLD. First Part Henry TV,, act v., so. 4. Late last night -the following letter reached Lloed's from Natal:- Horse Shoe Eotel, Marstzburg, Oct. 11, 1&99. lroyd's Newspaper, London.-Dear Sir,-Will you please allow me space in your vainable paper to find the friends of Mr. H. G. Matthews, late fruit merchant, of London and Wisbech, 'Cambridgeshire, and now of ...

... OUR VOLUNTBERS. During -the last fewr days regimental mnemos have been been issued by the nuidermentioned corps authorising the opening of subscription lists on behalf of the widows and orvhans, in connection with the South African campaign:-I 1st City of London EN. (Lieun.-colonel Wood); 4th Middlesex B. V. (Lient.. colonel Danieils); 2nd South Middlesex RN. (Colonel Cray); 4th V.B. Essex ...