... AFTER A CLUB3 rqlGRIT. My dear girl, I repeat that I was detained on yit buiriess. No, I don't e:qiect you Yo beiieve ?? f'6 .WitW busiifeseh which kept rictdt the odiii uuril- 'Iti or four o'clock in the morning. I didu't say. I was is i- detainea at the oWeice; au office is a.,place for eY traieacting business, bhu there are mriar other. E ;u places where businness may p trausated. qu ...

... | Jabbs is a self-made man. too 'es; the way in which he brags about him- r sice self shows that. 'hy -- XV CLS8 He: Yes. I know two men I thoroughl cre [if e asimire. dit ore 6he: Indeed' Who's the other one? ev u *-,Ta oth The Elderly Lady: They say his wife has SO: col money. WA es. Tom: Well, that isn't his fault They've only ev( ?tei been married a short timn. s e-t I - Ia ked That ...

... KRUGER IN FLIGHT, p 15_OLLAND HIS DESTINAT9ON. b a tBULLER'S VICTORIOU$S MARCH. v E Ii ELLNESS OF GENERAL BOTHAX e PRCLAM1ATION BY ROBERTS h TO END THE GUERELLA WARFARE. Mr. Yruger has abandoned hislatest capital and fled seawards. He is at Lorenzo a lirques, contemplating a voluntary exile to Holland, hp Since the annexation of the Transvaal by Great Britain there is-in English eyes, at van ...

... CONVALESCET iE-43M OP ENED AT H~AYLUNG, ' The new Convalescent Ilome for Children, Lp built, at the expensa of the Comitese of Moeati at Hayliag Island, and limided over to the ]Execu- S, tive of the Childreni's Alinistering, League, 'Ivs it OpeneLt iu the ?? of a hirge assombly by the Bishop of Southamptons on Saturedtt after- noon. The Countess of Meah was ?? at the ceremony, whilst the ...

... FRANCE. THE new French armoured cruiser Montrclm was launched at Toulon on Tuesday. THE boilers of the -new Preuch battleships Charlemagne and Gaulois, which stearmed for four days at a continuous sueed or 15 knots, werO s6a'c in4 uto the 3, ...

... GOSPORT. We understend that Mr. William Scott, late superintendent of the Royal Clarence Yard, Gospori, has been placed on the Commission of A the Peace for the County of Cumberland. A Till old instructional battery at Forton ?? to be Dulled down and re-built. Thle 11most modern anpliances in connection with the Ic ve big en instruction will be introduced in the r L new buiilding. hes DEATH OF ...

... 1372 All vessels in England and Wales ordered to enter the King's service and assemble at PortsmoutL. , 1372 Robertem Lckford, member for Portsmouth. 1373 Richus Abraham and PobtusLekford, members for Portsmouth. 1374 Johes ?? and Richus Robust, members for Portsmouth. 1377 July 13. Portsmouth atain burnt by the French, who were, however, driven back with great slaughter, 1377 Richus Abraham ...

... BEGINNKNGS OF FAME. Mr1adame Patti's Musical Chef. In A volume of beginuiugs which Mr. T. P. ce O'Counor has edited boars the title of In the of Days of My Youth' (Pearsou). It contains ,iy interesting autobiographien of thirty-four well- V ,ry known men and women of the day. Amongst . Dst the stories told is one by Madame Patti concern- ry ing a ?? which she bad at Craig-y- Nos, who,1 like ...

... rl STEAl! LAu-NCH EMPLOYES OUTrxao-The emnploy~o of the Old 'Steam Launch Company hold tcir .tannual outing oil Saturday to London. A large! bnumber ot friends went with the party. TheI 0Hippodrome and other places of interest were f visited, and the party returned home at a late; h -hour, after havoig spent an enjoyable day. thre universitv College. Oxford, anld folrth so o i D~r. J. li ...

... THE REV. H. R. HAWEiIS | t TELLS OF STRANGE EXPECRENCE5. e The Rev. H. It. Unweis keeps his promise of ti D giving some mnore Pulpit Expericnces in the t July p/e lf J egazine. 'When, be says I have, perhaps, preached an unusuallv Dlabby aid In e commonplace sexinon, someoue has benefited by Y that utterance above many others which Imay :t have thought I did myself more justice. bat a ...

... I a - ww r 0I 3- APPOINTMENTS. STAFF CAPTAIN. in II. J. Symons to the Thunderer, additional, it as Statf Captain and Queen's Harbour Master, Pembroke Dock, Auggst 17tb. 'a CAPTA [NS. cO Charles R. Arbuthnot to the Cambridge, to date Augulst, 24th. be RI. C. Sparkes to the Forte, Auguist 13th. *r T. J. Fleet to the \VWdrspite, additional, for the a Phaeton, September lit. J. Casement toF the ...

... NFAA.FS NUGGETS. clever. 'Smn. ou Satuirdayv the 311ti entei'ed Czptviicornus, arid wiater ?? po':i,'i ?? 1~vaE ii']brat edt oul S;Under, find t'.tr it Lonidca Lnjiasto':s pilia ched ?? When ?? I al ii 4 Itt - itv ws~f~ Imuitlij iiid olle pnloe b u t Iitt t1V-ar, lie had becu in jjinaI li' :11! Fril'' j''4 joc'kv'y Club ?? I en'o f. i, ~ io' ,i I c'ie, dit)ite ti le cton. olf thle 'I I o~ ...