... Varieties. Racing: Doncaseter, Hnamilton Park, and Salisbury. Cycling: Light up at 9.13. Ai WOR*D FOR THE RRAILWAY SERVANT. Speaking at the annual dinner of the Railway Bene- volent Institution, at the Hotel Cecil, London, last night, the Duke of Devonshire ...

... whatever may happen in October, an immediate appeal to the country is not intended. and Sir William-as the chief Government Whip-speaks with some authority. It may hare dawned upon the Government that the time is not so propitious for an appeal as appeared to ...

... and this resulted in their hasty retirement- * They were being followed yesterday by some of our mounted corps. Hamilton speaks in high terms of the three battalions above mentioned, the ad- mirable manner the 62nd Field Battery covered the advance, ...

... our C *position in London, I should have unhesita-tingly answered that the pesion was already so good that it was, humanly speaking, ilpossible-that that posi- tion should be improved. It has been improved. f, (Cheers) The impossible bw come to pass, and ...

... He regarded Mr. Chamberlain as a profes- - al politician; his only a-abition waes ;1S ce n a,,grandisemont. (Cheers.) The speake~r at lirgljh re- 'f ferred to the nasmher of Birmingham companies %with 1. dealings with the (tovernment ?? in which Mir. ...

... pro'bably by this time he has lost hi- heae. To him every escaped foreigner from Shen-si, Shan-si, and Sau-su owes hie life. Speaking of Si-ngan-fu itself, M1r. Morgan said- In this ancient and iniportant city there is, as in Peking, an inter or Imperial ...

... mention the areat interest His Royal Highness takes in tho prosperity of agriculture. - pp!ause.) Among-sr other causes of speaking of His Royal Higil ness as illustrious is one which, when ' niention it, vill meet with frill scent fr-one all of us. .' ...

... Taylor, and that gentleman taking his hat off, craved it to MAr. Heap. Last night was a busy one for the candidates. Mr. reap speaking at South Shore and St. Anne's, and Mnr Taylor at Poulton and Sirkham. Messrs. Relme, Broadhurst, Whitley-Thomso , MI.P.'s ...

... NIBSBUIR. IMPORTANT DECISION. Press Association War Speeial Johannesburg, Satuday. Colonel MxcKenzie, the MVilitary Governor, speaking at a Calecdonian banquet here last night, said that the biggest question in the iummediate future administration of Johannesburg ...

... om and despise the meiriment, seek to class us with Valentines and olther foolish means of wasting money. Wheln we cannot speak the language of a peooie, it may salve our wounded self- resusct toC abuse their customs. Those for whom the glad-tidings have ...

... throwing hindrances in Mr. Herbert Gladstone's wary, because he does not go to their extreme in temperance matters, were speaking in an individual and not in a representative capacity. It is not unlikely even that some of them are now of the opinion that ...

... in the direction of securing comfort for passengers, could suggest. The trip is of exactly four ho-aduratdion, and. mostly speaking, the traveller might just as well be fishing from a boat on a duck- pord, and with far less personal discomfort. A week or ...