... 'Aurat 'ilatto THE SEASON THE mild January has been highly favourable to the early lambs, and on the farm in general the health of stock is first rate. That malign mystery, the influenza, is confined to human beings, and while the mild winter has sent the human death rate up by leaps and bounds. the high temperature and soft south-westerly wind have been health-giving to ewes and lambs in ...

... Nopice of thec ear lt Tt-INNKS to his lucky absence from Peking, Li The Hung Chang finds himself in a position to play Powers the part which Dr. Leyds unsuccessfully essayed and in Europe-that of Plenipotentiary to the Powers China at large. It is a tribute to Li's strength of character that, in spite of his very equivocal antecedents, so many foreign diplornatists readily accept him in that ...

... Plact aux Damxs BY LADY VIOLET GREVILLE IT appears that the County Council are now prepared to deal with one of the burning questions of the day-women's drunkenness. They have provided a Home, something on the model of the one erected by Lady Henry Somerset at Duxhurst, near Horley, which is to contain thirty inmates. The attempt has been made none too soon. It is sad, indeed, to see the ...

... IT I-vt c T o II t t THis London season is fast drawing to a close, and the Royal Family will soon be scattered for ti.e houidays. The Queen goes to the Isle of Wight in ten days' time, hu:t the Prince and Princess of Wales stay in town till the end of the month, whihe the Duke and Duchess of Connaught return to Ireland now that the I)uke is quite convalescent from his slight indisposition, ...

... ZIze CoeCg antb Aelief of wuntj, n A STIRRING story is unfolded in an interview which r's representative has had with an officer who has just retn! Kumassi. Events in West Africa have hardly received i tion they deserved, South Africa and China seeming iif everything else. The tale of the relief of the besieged g Kumassi, however, is a glorious episode, reminding us details of the story of ...

... 'Japico of the 'Ml ewh GIVE US peace, in Heaven's name, after a Peace, in settlement, exclaimed Mr. Rose-Innes in the Heaven's excellent speech he delivered at Claremont, Name ! Cape Colony, the other day-peace that will lead to a settlement, and a settlement that will make for permanent peace. That, in a few words, is the wail of the Afrikander to-day, and no one who knows anything of Cape ...

... J?iug 9?lfolm's X-irQba? THE youngest Sovereign in Europe, King Alfonso of Spain, has just kept his fourteenth birthday. It is rare for a ?? NN ?? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - r -5-$ ?? ALFONSO XIII., KING OF SPAIN IFiOM THE PAINTING BY GODIN Sovereign to be actually flori a King, yet such was Alfonso's lot, for he came into the world six months after the death of his father, and so succeeded to ...

... A Correspondent writes- This niewv room and surrounding suite of rooms has lately been opened, and is probably the finest and largest in the world. The majl room is 20L feet long by 175 feet wide and 40 feet high. It is comiposed mostly of marble and is lighted by electricity. Electric lights are round the Cornice and in the roof as well as ol the seats, and warmed throughout by furnaces, a ...

... Filura1 4jetchg THE SEASON THE wheat fields look all the better for their sun bath, and harvest is drawing near in the south. The short straw and sonle- what thin plant forbid the farmer hoping for an average yield either of grain or of trusses, but quality ought to be at least fair, and if the July heat and light give us a grain pretty rich in gluten the miller will buy. The barley crop has ...

... 9 o t tat Vrr C itti.2'5 b, W. NOM TH O1AS THE; production of Mr. Stephen Phillips's 1Zerod at He R MAJESTY'S Theatre has been attended by at least one satisfactory result; it has shown that there is no foregone conclusion in the minds of our playgoing public against plays in verse, and that, whatever may be said to the contrary by faint-hearted managers, the dramatist who aims at literary ...

... IAcp war Boffirt THE War Office is the medium through which the Secretary of State for War exercises his functions as administrator of the military system of the British Empire. The Secretary of State is responsible to the Crown that the military forces and land desences of the kingdom are efficient. He is also responsible to the Treasury that money is not spent except in accordance with ...

... C-ntain t itlb the CUlat IROM.11 A CORRESPONrDCICT Tun gallant conduct of Canadian soldiers at the front has, beyond d m)ubt, invested Canada vwith an added interest for the people of this country. But much of this interest, it must be confessed, had been previously aroused by the loyal attitude and personal picturesque- ness of the Canadian Premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who, on his visit to ...