... DUTCH WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. MARY EVENTS. 1899. OCTOBER. 10.—Boet Ultimatum received in London. 12. —Capture of Lieutenant Nesbitt's armoured train Boers near Vryburg. Natal Border crossed Boers. , 13.—Colonel Baden-Powell and his forces isolated at ...

... The vagrants for tke samo period numbered 35 and 61, against and 33. The Master further reported. that the inmates’ annual Christmas tree entertainment (the given by the Southem' Minstrels) had been jsreatly appre- ciated. —- There was no business of public ...

... forward of £6 14s. 9d. The Clerk submitted the proposed new county rate basis for the parish. The present basis (made in 1896; was £3,392. and the proposed new basis was £3 760 an increase of £368. The new basis showed increase of £ ...

... raising of two new batteries would mean the adding of eight guns the equipment. The officers are, however, looking forward to complete change. They now have eight 20-pounder R. 8.-L. Armstrong guns, which are rather out date. What the new weapons will be ...

... gained by the Boers. (Cheers). I have one other quotation. From every part of the Empire—from Australia, from Tasmania, from New Zealand, they are all the same effect. ask you to bear that in mind to-morrow. I agree with Mr. Mackinder, cannot say how deeply ...

... why not ?—Apply, mentioning this paper to Manager, 72, Bishopsgate Street, Without, London, E.C., for illustrated booklet How to live rent free. BATH CHAIRS.—New and Second-hand, with Eliptic or Cee Springs, Wicker and Merlin Chairs, Inkley Conchas ...

... why not?— Apply, mentioning this paper to Manager, 72, Bishopsgate Street, Without, London, E.C., for illustrated booklet How to live rent free. TJATH CHAIRS.—New and Second-hand, with -*-* Eliptic or Cee Springs, Wicker and Merlin Chairs, Inkley Couches ...

... you own a house ? If not, why not?— Apply, mentioning this paper to Manager, 72, Bishopsgate Street. Without, London, E.C., for illustrated booklst How to live rent free. ENISON BROS., BEDFORD ST., LEAMINGTON, Invite Inspection of their unequalled ...

... have a beautifully illustrated contribution the works R. Gemmell Hutchinson, R.S.W., by Gabriel Setoun. Some Prints in Colours, is the title of atle article by J. Herbert Slater. Mr. Fred Miller writes on The Decorations of London Restaurants, the ...

... for Bacon Carers to give a lecture on bacon curing on Saturday, December Bth. The lecture will be illustrated with a number of lantern illustrations which have been collected by the lecturer from various places in Europe, and will for the first time ...

... MAGAZINES FOR DECEMBER. Mall Mall.—The Christmas number of this popular magazine is fall of good things and is, aa usual, beautifully illustrated. A seventeenth century Ollendorff, by F. H. Skrine, gives a glimpse of London in the time of Charles 11. It is ...

... Stables, R.N.; Our New Pri«e Competitions, Subjects for December. Boy's Own Papbb (Christmas Past). Bully, Christmas Breaking-op Piece, by Paul Blake; Christmas in the Khyber Hills, E. A. Hosford; A Strange Detective, by Arthur C. James; A ...