... NOTES ON NEWS. It seems strange that Christmas-tide should invariably be saddened by calamity. This year has been no exception. Indeed, the list of disasters is longer, and the mishaps more serious, than has been the case vf recent years. Fog end heavy ...

... English sisters to do special honour to Lady Sandhurst. New Medical Knight. Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, who has just been knighted, is one of the moat remarkable among the scientific doctors of London, says Jf. A. P. A low. sized, sandy-haired Scotchman, ...

... when it is recognised that at one time there were assetntiled in Dawson City no less than 28,000 men. Like to every other new mining camp, they numb red amongst them the scum of the earth, inch:ding two hundre i and fortysix kni.wii murderers from the ...

... : e 7 h I think this chew must have been struck by lightning. On desert afr.—Winthrop t If Freddie is coin/ to spend Christmas with his pandimother, perhaps you'd better buy him that tits born.* Mrs. Winthrop wits to him about it, my dear, but be said ...

... bloom at Christmas. to the Virgin's Tree in the Garden of the Repose, in Egypt. Mark Twain has two books coining nut. One consists of short stories, the other of collected papers on literary and other subjects. lir. Clemens Is still in London. and is 'likely ...

... words hid pastel between Mr. Moss and Mr. Monkhouse the meeting WINDERMERE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. The first meeting of the new council was bold on Monday evening. Present. Messrs. G. H. Punk's, W. Little. G. Somers.ll, K. Whittaker. J. Airq, L. Steele ...

... Australian judges may reasonably be supposed to know more or Australian issues than judges sitting in London. and the costly and dilatory system of appeal to a London court has absolutely nothing to recnmmend it It is a badge of inequality between Great Britain ...

... the rise to Is. 4d. in the £ for one veaMonly was the purchase of several hundred yards of Bin. pipes, a stock of 4in. do , new hydrants, and 4 and gin. stop tape with covers, etc. During the last three years there has been no frosts to damage the pipes ...

... now published by Blacnilllazi and Co. _ CHIPS OF NEWS. America's new battleship, the Kalmar. will be made the flags .ip on the European station. The fienerl eichirectural Coogresa will be held in London on June ldth,and the five following days. The Royal ...

... a matrimonial point of view, while tie punnet r quarter PAM a alight rIPP. It will IM curious to C 1 mpare with this the Christmas to Easter quarter of Itlfo-1. A revert outbreak of wedding. I. the contain pequel of a war. Train Men In the War. The conductor ...

... WeatherA, late asAistant t.:r.tary to the Royal llorticultusal Sality. It will bare a hundred and sixty illustrations.. More revelations! A new and important work is Olt S.rr•l Memoirs of William 11. and Francis Joseph. Tlr• hook is understood to ...

... Services on Ash Wednerday Good Friday, and Christmas Day, with celebration of Holy Communion; also on the Stet Sunday in each month at noon, and after evening service quarterly. Hymns, The Hymnal Companion^ (new edition). Ormsnists: U. Reade, A.M. ; Mrs ...