... CHRISTIAN SOCIAL UNION AND POU3R LAW RELIEF. On Tuesday evening at a meeting of the Oxford City Branch of the Christian Social 'Union in the PI Parish Room of St. Ma~rY-the-Virgin a lecture on T .;,The True Principles , of Poor Law Relief, with I reference to Oxfor, Brixworth and Whitechapel' II was deliverad by tho Rev. i. C. Cox, LL. D., rector ra of Holdenby -and Chairman of the Brjxworth ...

... A AGRICULTURE ?? A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF -THIRTY YEARS' PROGR11iSS. The last thirty years has ' brought inmeinse change in the croppings of agricultural lands, and.in the total.areas under. cultivation and grass. - The '60's, '70's and '80's were all marked by bringing in of fresh land to cultivation. Between 1869 and 1889>nearly two'million acres were added to the farms of the. United King ...

... Bn d, At' 11 I'll _ ?? St, de The time-honoured Druids' dinner, with he which the opening of a New Year is celebrated, is always made the occasion of a display of what may be called uncontroversial politics, and never has there been a better opportunity than the occasion this year affords for show- ing that in a true spirit of patriotism party I spirit can be sunk, and one voice give expres- ...

... THE DRUIDS' IDIN.NER. : ?? n ._ Beo 11 ST _ - r _e a The scene of the Druids' annual New Year's Day rga dinner on Monday was the Corn Exchange, which it was bettor suited for the gathering than the Drill he, Hall, where the function was held last year. There tb had been some effort at decoratiop by means Of tl Begls,. etc., in -which a large hunc of mistletoe or' han~ging from the centre of ...

... I I~ . I ?? I .,nh Mr¶IuvI U. LOCAL VOLUNTEERS. a 3m The enrolnent of redruits for the Oxfordshire 0 ect Company of the Imperial Yeomanry fdr servic I t lin at the sat of war in South Africa had proceeded P with reassuring activity during the Present. week, itj and, CoL. Norris, who has been in daily attendance i or- astrthe Q.O.O.11. headquarters in New-Inn-H3all- r in, steet, has had the ...

... THE WEEK'S SUMMMARY. ?? LI An earthquake has destroyed ten small villages r. in the district of Achalkalak in the Caucasus. The Registrar General gives it as his opinion 3- that the twentieth century begins Jan'ary 1- I9OL d The wages of 40,000 operatives employed i. -the.1- -'woollen industry in New England were -advanced.-' e on Monday. Count Leo Tolstoi is well enough to take walks e and ...

... .ERT.-A capita] concert, arranzed bv Mi ch V J WXJ 9 %JL *V . V CONCERT.-A capital concert, arranged by Miss h Macray in aid of the Choir Fund, was given in W the schoolroom on Thursday Loo'nnight. In con- d- sequence of the great -amount of sickness prevail- s id ing in the parish, and the heavy rainfall during SC lie th evening, there was a small attendance. The les first part of the ...

... -ETA - = T E E W~ A ]RI cc 01 d ?? ti B t] Ii a p c IF ti a d Ii IE t f d RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES. BRITISH SUCCESSES AT COLESBERG AND 1)OIJGLAS. A BATCH OF LETTERS FROM THE FRONT. THE QUEEN AND HER TROOPS. The following messages have been interchanged hetwcen the Queen and the peepie of Kimborloy: December 28.-I am desireedby Mayor and Coun- cil to forward the following message for transmis- ...

... - SRiPSTO]~-ON-STOT. : nI | SHIPSTON-ON-STOUR--.:~ ; - 1 D-J ALL.Lr g Jv vial -t.1A do A CROWN, INIr SoPpzn.-This aiugl #*vent took'- r place on the evening of the 28th,'when about 30 ?? e members assembled. A convivial evening was - d spent. MeIDNIerT PnrA.-The old custom of ringing out e the old year and ringing in the:new .was:plit-iL practice at midnight. on- Sunday :with' gco&d'effeoft, Z ...

... I C = _ TI I ~ a I- The annual treat I-n +io ; iry The annual treat to the village cbildren was held in the National School on the 28th uIt. About 130 were present and these were, well looked after by the ladies present. During the evening the elder children gave a successful performance of a Jilnenile operetta entitled Mr. Nobody. At the close the Vicar thanked all those who had so kindly ...

... A meeting of the Parish Council was held in F the schoolroom on Wednesday evening, under the C cheairmanship of Mr. Montague Wootten. There were also present Messrs. J. Jacobs, J. R. Mattock, I WV. J1. Mattocjc, Bodimeade, Coppock, Adams, Cooper, West, G. Church, and Miss Clarke. . APPofJiaaNT OF ASSISTANT-OVEasEnt. t The Chairman said the following correspondence fi lid passed between the ...

... ECHOES OF THE WEEKI With thle 'New Year the City' Council took ,up the old subject of the Cherwell strealm, and ~ Ive fear that Mir. Zacharias, in his rider to thle report accepted by the Sanitaty Commllitteec, has made further delay over this tiresome business possible. Howeverj as the work of dredging is not to bie begun before Mdarch, there should be time to see if there is anay F. ...