... THE SIEGE OF MAFEKMG. FOOD TILL MIDDLE OF MAY. PEOPLE VERY, VERY, WEARY. Mafoking (undated, but received at Gaberones * April 14). The past week has been practically without accident or interest so far as Maleking is concerned, but *on Friday occurred one of the most dramatic incidents of the war in this region. In the early part of the week two Baralongs arrived in the native stadt and ...

... N',&IT.1 ON' TICE OUSTOM )TOUIUM. AAEN T AT ilEIED RUN. A hronlrrai qtaetudle pi aev alid ?At tho CustnaJ ?ouse on1 Tuosdly'-tn factiotttl t'bes s )'erbd practicrlly ?? ta do. ft is oflicitay staied th0111 on StilIlrdaty £2. 31 .(00 ITTis5 paid an: ah.-..lp nodls ecnd onl Mc~ndny .,OIMI. TI'le holtme close. at t.80 on Sitil-dalt, otbherw.ier arn tulditioa.i £4:al0,OtU wolild biss to he added ...

... LONDON- : - I . : I r-WEEK BY. :WEEK.' tONDON EAADS,- Open-air band psrfermances are no r rieing arxanged for the suminer by the London 'County Council. he season cormmonces with-a concert of the massed bands of the Council at Quee1's Hall oel the 16th, nnd after- wards nearly eighty concerts wveekly will be given in various open spaces of the metropolis. As an experi- ment, too, tho band ...

... T2RDJB R-E.K'S GARDV WORK__, liv A. Jfil-,.,S. WxpSDS.-The gent-le raiin whichl I Gl no ~slelpdmly early ill i-iso wekT! did grant good to the WoI and in eoftsns~g thetcoanviowie dirsits-face ensialeit s1eeds to gorstnite vsi- grat ree om. ilinl the Qonshitionr -i-ic-h favour on ac 2i as filsron weed! seeids, for thsethng -are lwka.ys with uIs. nlo ground, borie ves- well oolltis-skctd, csalg ...

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... FOR THE PEOPLE! DEMOCRATIC WAR CHEST. 38,36 PENNIES RECEEIVED. The following further subscriptions have been re- ceived 2or our Radical Democratic Election Fund in view of the General Election this year. We wish to remind our readers that this is essentially a poor man's fund-a penny fund, indeed. A plan suggested by a correspondent for collecting the penniea is to obtaiu Post Office forms ...

... Whatever view mny be taken of the Resur- rection-whether, with one of the venerable Fathers of the Churoh, we are to believe it be- cause it is impossible, or whether we are to dis- believe it because the evidence for it is not conclusive-there can be no doubt that, fact- or fable, it has appealed more powerfully perhaps to the ilna gination of civilized men than any other event recorded in ...

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... CHINA CRISIS-LATEST.i FOUR PROVINCES REBEL- NEW IMPERIAL EDICT.';. T:E BOXERS PRAISED. Tientsin, June 8. By an Imperial Edict, issued to-day the BoXers ar praieed and the troops are condemned for attaeking bhen.-Becuter. FOUT PROVINCES REPORTED IN. *REBELLION. 4 Victoria ?? June 9. The latest advices from China state that a rebellidn has broken out in Ywangtungj Kwangai, Kulichov w, and Hunan. ...

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