... humnoured, and if the British and Portugiese flags are to float side by side, it will not b~e for t~he first time. If report speaks truly, neither Government is averse from such an arrarngemeut, but a serious difficulty has arisen ill the attitude of the ...

... -TH-IE PEOPLE, Dec. 24. The Lockhart elephants are the most amusing of their kind. There seems nothing thiey cannot do except. speak, and that too they manage in a fashion, to the extent of one word. The children will delight in their awkward aambols.-SPORTSMAN ...

... aenem are jte ?? inaintaitling their posiiti6o agaiiist any- inarntr in tile wrbild, The doctor fouhd amongi the Boers mainiy speaking, Engiisth Among thdse servrln with the enemy be saw an cix-lieutenant in the friny *vi wta ?? tihe ianlks .-Ubahl Nffes. ...

... proceedings is the arrest of an atLorney, Vermooten by name, on a charge of high treason. ' We makle no Vretetice, of course. to speak on tihe mnerits of thc case. But it' shows theat the authorities are not afraid to act, and thalt is the main point whenl a ...

... primitive device whereby before the marriage, Giovanni's mind is. perturbed by the visions of a semi-clairvoyante old nurse. In speak- ing of these characters as The Brother, The Wife, and The Husband, we unintentionally illustrated the nature of their relation ...

... head-so uncurled; We can rhyme with the big British roar As it rolls from the ends of the world. Is there anything ivi may not speak ? Is there anything ,we cannot feel? :Who on earth shall accuse us of cheek When our pen's manufactured of steel ? So of empire ...

... almost continuously in the country because he preferred it, and there is not an allusion to him in her letters which does not speak of love and respect. His own Practerita are not very remarkable. They chiefly concern his foreign travel as a boy, and the ...

... coming struggle was then almost universally regarded. If so, their reticence is easily understood, for then it was too late to speak perhaps at some future period they may have their say. For years past, however, the British public has been taught to despise ...

... the ranks after having done eleven years' service, although exposed to all weathers throughout the year. Another officer, speaking of these animals, says:-' (For a good all-round horse, capable of standing hot and cold weather in the open, and keeping ...

... brilliant derangement ot metaphors perpetrated in yesterday's Times by its famous Paris representative. I quote this, he said, speaking of a certain article, because the Libet is one of those amphibious journals that, waiting to see which way the 'wind blo6vs ...

... values. BANK DiviDE.;Ds. 'Tlhe banking results for the latter half of 1899 are now coming in more freely, and, generally speaking, some improvement is shown over the corre- sponding results for 1898, although considering the advance which has taken place ...

... very effective. THE GERMANS IN XAFFRARIA. CAPE TOwN, Thursday.-Colonel Schermbrucker, who is a member of the Cape Assembly, speaking at King Williamstown yesterday, said that the rumours of unrest among the German population in Kafiraria were quite unfounded ...