... Weekly News Christmas anum- h0 er gives us photographs3 and descriptions of New Zealand, scenery and Maori life. Thiere are many IC interesting stories, some of whichi were this outcome 2' of prize competitions. Captain Cook's experiences ty in New Zealand ...

... whence they made their wa-y% to Delagoa Bay. The Widgeon also- had Oa board Mr. George Lynch, Correspondent of ' The Illustrated -London News, who had been shut up in Ladyemith. He states that he got tired of the monotony of the siege, and maae an excursion ...

... QE`EN. AN OCTOBER APPEAL ?? PkIteders of T he Dailv News wore prepared I on the Sth inst. for an aunement of the dissolution of Parliament-in the last week of the present month, provided that decisie news came from South Africa in the meantime. Such tidings ...

... Judges and . Sezitences. SIR FCRUEST FULTON w.% yester- day elected by the Couzt of Alder- men to be Recorder of London in f l1n ar- ?? ?? or s. the room of the late Sir Charles I-ail. Sir Charlies Hall, thoghlr not on a jdjicial level with Mr. Rltssell ...

... ART AND LETER& China and thfe Present Crisin, with Notes on a Visit, to Jap=, is the title of a new work by Mr. .oseph Walton, M.P., which will ho pulblished alitiost immediatoly by Meo;srs. SaLinlsorn Low, Marston, and Co. Mr. Wal- ?? has only recently ...

... is the article which ap- pearcd in ' The Daily News of December 5th: A very distinguished teacher, Dr. Sophio Bryant, sugtgested lost week, in ths courea of a lecture, which was reported in Tbe Daily News, tht offers mhould be invited for lsta of the ...

... plans-and this re- peatedly occurred on important occasions in 1864, 1886, and 187 0--his strategical calculations proved the better. No one in the German Em- pire will have reeived the news of the Field- rshal's death with deeper sorrow than the ?? Fredenick ...

... the poor in the rural districts, he says, wias brought beforo the public by the Special Corre- .spondent of ' The Daily News,' whose dismal indictment, though incapable of verification by reason of want of absolute details, is, oer tile whole, famliliar ...

... nt of the war. The Govern- ment had fixed September 25 for Dissolution because i the new register for Scotbland would come into force on November 1st, and in London they had brought about an absurd and preposterous situs- tion, seeing that those who would ...

... one orif - leadn o:s taxt the retr of not ?? -t.wLo ibersls for London constituen- -LS cco upon In o-ther words, thed Pre~cz .wmas 'lht M%4e Mnistermialsts would -n se'ven seats n London and lose none. Suca ?? aze interesting in their way, but are ap- ...