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... | ~d - THIS DAY'S CRICKET. KENT v. SURREY. , nattll of thc Canterbury week Kent have Surrey for their f?.ttddIe O'1 itterest is lent to the game trom the fact that the h - devoted to the benefit of Martin, who has done yeoman :2, e5r e tv as a bowler. The home team won the toss, and opened Y, ^e Pinr 15sc and Alec Hearne. * l I,1 , -C J. Burnup, not out, 9; Hearne (A.), not out, 8. Total ,, ...

... COR-RESPONDENCE. THE HANDY MAN. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZErrE, DEAR SIR,-While I am grateful to your unappreciative critic for writing my name in the same dip of ink with that of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, I feel moved, by that passion for truth which a long journalistic experience has developed in my soul, to protest with all the force I can command against one phrase that your reviewer ...

... THE PIANOLA. WHEREVER THERE 1 A PIANO THERE SHOULD BE A PIANOLA. The Pianola multiplies the value of a piano, as it furnishes the medium by means of which any one, with or without technical knowledge, can play upoI the piano practically any piece of music ever written for it. The musical classics of the great composers, the popular airs of the day, and both song and dance music are instantly ...

... FOURTH EDITION. : rL THE RELIEF OF PEKING CONFIRMED BY ADMIRAL BRUCE. AN OBSTINATE RESISTANCE. official confirmation of the news of the relief of Peking was received by the Admiralty this morning from Admiral Bruce, who reportts Peking captured Wednesday, August 15. Legations safe. D)etails follow. The only additional particulars that have yet reached us are con- ad in the report of the ...

... THE BATTLE OF THE BANQUETS DISCOMFITURE OF THE PARIS MI'NICIPAL C0UN~1I [FROM OUR OWVN CORlIESPONDENT I PARIS, Taesday. -The battle of the banquets has had a f'ital i, h municipal feast has succumbed in the course of the confli t, all,, be spread. The Ministerialists are naturally jubilatit 1h e' (eclare that the fiasco in which the Vincennes hanquet Inis resLIltent is, fr tIre a rebuff, ...

... CH ES S. frolf the Paris Tournament l VMe BLACK. WHITE. BLACYL WHITY. MARSHALL MIESES. MARSHALL AmIESES p K 4 20. P- 4 Kt -B 5 K 4 B- B4 21. Y-1K5 BPx P 3 Kt -B3(a) 22. R-R 5 KxlKt 4 BB1 33. R xl' B-h 3 lt-B3 24. R- Kt 7 Kt -K 6 4, 3 t K R4tb) 25. R- Q 2 B-Q 4 6 Qx3 0 D PxP PxP 7 .-Kt 5 P 33(c) 27. Rxl' BxP 8t N -7 ) Kt-R4 28. R(Q2) -Q 7 B - K5 oKtx13 29. P- Kt5 R--KB1 x3'f) }t -Kt3 30. R-B7 R ...

... OTHER FRIENDSHIPS IT came home to me, during that week of grim and sordid business in the old house, feeling so solitary among the ghosts of unkind passions which seemed, like the Wardour-street ancestors, to fill the place-it came home to me what consolation there can be in the friendship of one small corner of grace or beauty. During those dreary days in Scotland, the friendliness and ...

... SOMETIIING MORE OF THE ARRANGEMENTS. Lloyd's have decided that the Aurania is due on the evening of the 26th inst. She has been to the Cape many times, and each time she has made the passage in nineteen days. So that as the good ship started on the evening of the 7th, a good passage would bring her to berth at Southampton on the day already named. This would be an altogether satisfactory time ...

... FOURTH EDITION, , THE S3A. CONCESSIONS CO IssioN, INQUIRY INTO THE AFFAIRS OF A DISTILLERY, PRETORIA, Tuesday.-The Concessions Commission to-day was 'hiefly engaged in an inquiry into the affairs of the Hatherley Dis- te It appeared from the evidence that the Government were in receipt of 1,000 a year from the coucessioniiaires, who paid no duty. The profits had been diminished by the ...

... IN the whole history of man's struggle with the forces pf nature no story is more picturesque than that which records his battle with the sandhills which fringe the shores of North-Western Europe and the Mediterranean littoral, as well as the Caspian shores and the low-lying coasts of South America. It must not be supposed, however, that Britain has had no share in this prolonged contest. Some ...

... Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman had a hot half-hour at Inver- keithing last night. It is no joke being heckled in Scotland, and C.-B.'s hecklers had prepared their questions with the utmost care. The result was that C.-B. was completely cornered, and his answers read very badly thisrmorning. He defended his statements previous to the war on the ground that he knew nothing of the Boer armaments. ...