... WOMEN CHAT. The Queen’* Chrmm%* dinner Osborne ia served aitli great ceremony, there being grand display I plate the sideboard and the table. The i-aron beef, woodcock pie, and boar’* heal, are cooked Windsor, and thence despatched Osborne. Turkeys and pee«e figure the menu, together with urn-pudding, and perhaps the vet y b**( mince pies in the world. Christmas card* »how sign becoming less ...

... It is best to start dwarf beans in 3 inch pots (two or three seeds to each), that the plants Can be bedded out on vacant benches when the pots are fall of roots. Excellent yields are tainable in S inch pots also, five or six seeds being need each pot, or in boxes placed in ■pare, light spots in cucumber and melon bouses. Strong bottom-beat and temperatures from 79 to 90 degrees by day, and ...

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... The Central News says that the last official report through the Department of Native Affa rs Pietermaritzburg, showed that the Zulus were still remaining quiet, and obeying the orders of Sir Waller Hely-Huichinson, the Governor. THE QUEEN AND THE WAR. The Queen will entertain at Windsor Castle, on the afternoon ot Boxing Day, many of the wives and children of the soldiers serving in South ...

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