... CHRYSANTHEMUM AND YEGEGYTABLE SHO(WS. The Bingley and District Chrysanthemum and Yec- table Society held their first annual show in te Narional, Schools, Bingley, on Satirday. For a number of years Lise soclety hfeld a horticultural show in thle -rammer months ...

... generally. Entries for the show of the Bath and West of England Society comprise 224- horses, 516 cattle, 141 pens of sheep, 135 pens of pigs, 349 exhibits of poultry. and 364 of pro- duce, or 1,729 in all--a very good total. For the show of the Royal Agricultural ...

... pierhead and, demolishing a second k-n,nn, passed under the stage bridge, whiclh carried away hler ' funnel and masts. The further progress of the vessel w Ias checked by a huge chain cable reaching from the I pierhead to the stage. and shortly afterwards ...

... CHilDREN AT LEEDS.-Return for the wveek ending Thursday, April 26th:-Remaining in the ltosroital April 19th, 23; admitted since, 5; discharsged cured, or madeda it- patients, 3; remaining iii the ?? April 26th, 25; out-patients admitted, wvomen 32, children ...

... cuinable. The Ministry, and the Ministry alone, ac- cording to the Colonial Secretary's own showing. is responsible for all the vain sacrifice of life in the early stages of the war. They knew six weeks before war broke out that it was going to come; and yet ...

... the hands of a public trust. A second Binl proposed to enlarge the pc'werS of the governing body of King Edward the Sixth School at Birmingham, to which the Cbwity COonissions-rs offered objeion. The Bill was read a second time, ho1wever. A third Bill, ...

... matter. The spetele is the j thing at old Dniry, and Mr. Art-he- Colins ?? *e prepared a series of stage pict-rdes of surpassing beaut. ?? fact that the second half of the pantomimne opens d with a scene entitled thle Palac-e of the New RuR- a public suggests ...

... enthusissm, In the first two ballots he stood second. The Board of Trade Returns issued yesterday show imports for April amounting to £842,621,876, an increase of £30,264,854. The imnports for the four months to April amounted to £169.694,767, an increase; of ...

... I IMPERIAL PARLIAH WT. HOUSE OF LORDS. =l? MODAY, April 2nd. The Lord Chaineelior took his seat on the woolsack SECRET COMMISSIONS. Lord RU:SSELL ce: KILL.OWEN moved the second reading of the Prevention of Corruption Bill. and cx- plained that the object ...

... Tbe garments specially needed are nvonmeu's full siza, boys' and children's underclothing and babies: also boys' and men's second-h-and garments would be roost gratefully received. Al bundles will le lndiey, taken. in by 'Mrs, denior, Invalids' Kitchen ...

... was a warm admirer of Lord Roseberv until Home Rute came on the political stage. It wa.s in a speech he delivered in the House of Lords after the fall of Mr. Gladstone's second Govermment in 1885 that the Duke of Argl prophesied in glowing language the ...

... asserted that to get £700 out of Chancery he had taxed costs amiountng to £l730 to pay. The Eschequeq returns from April 1st to April 7th were as follows :-Beceipts, :£5.322,677; expendi- tare, £6,404,280; balances, £2,035,444. For the cormnopndmg period ...