... people knew nothing of him. Dr. Casey said the man was suffeoring from delusions, and ought to go to the asylum. Hs would not speak that morning or tell them anything, and I seemed despondent. The order for removal to the I asytium was made. ANr IsasBECIL ...

... tirown herself into the defence of ie Epire at this impornt crisis. The people|- Gt New Zealad, said Mr. Seddon, and he was 1 speaking, we believe, for the entire Colony. was determined that the prestige of the Brit-ish. Empire should be maintained at, all ...

... sincerely hoped His Lordship ivjnld he enjoy a long, happy, rnd prospe nus fui life, and adde: I '.Personally, and I amui1 speaking also for the tenants on this th part'of the estate, we have -eceiv3i m .the utmost kindness and ?? in from the noble houqe ...

... his New Year's message to his diocese the Bishop of Loudon says: We cannot shut our eaxs to the voice of God, which is speaking to us as a nation. It rebukes our pride and our self-conceit; it warns us that we must strive, more than we have been striving ...

... Hicks Beach, if he is graciously permitted by his Tory critics to unfold another Budget, will once more be in a position to speak most pleasantly of the couintry's commercial status and out- look It is a usual sort of thing to say that a distulbed political ...

... it, because they did did not feel it right to hoard up money when they had sn many distressed veterans to help (tapplase). Speaking of the chairman, he said it would he - impossible for them to find a chairman who could follow properly in his steps and ...

... also under treatment. BOER PERSONRES WAX FAT. The Boer prisoners in hospital still continue to lprosper and wax fat. I was speaking to one of them the other day. He informed me he had been under the impression that the English army consisted of 6,000 soldiers ...

... retreat owing to a storm of shell and bullets which fell around them. The emblem, as Colonel Elrmhurst o Rhodes said, when speaking to a Boer doctor s after the engagement, which is held to be the sacred E symbol of humanity was disregarded completely, ...

... Chamber of Commerce, dealing with the great progress which the German Empire had made daring the past century, Herr Eiie, speaking on behalf of the firms trading with South Africa, asked whether the Chamber of Com- merce was doing all tbat was required ...

... 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 ...

... classes of ezumo fuel for two or three times samount obtaable for thoe snme descriptions only three yemrs aro. tlenerally speaking, the prices of otaer qualties of coal :r 41 or 5) per ent. hig e nowv han they were at the close of 189, and tiu tendeoney ...

... different plane socially from the South Island squatter who dines with the bishop when he goes to Chrisechurch, and is, so to speak, an asset of a huge limited liability pastoral company. Himself he would describe as a colonial to the backbone. The wool classer ...