... Of the 40,000 £5 Shares; offered 14 500 Shares have been applied for by the directors and tbeu friends and Ill be allotted in full in terins of the prospectus. bfr The LIST will OEN on MONDAY, the 23rd April, andi (LOSE an or Wo WEDNESDAY, the 25th April, at 4 o'clock, for Town'and Country. THE JOHNSON-LUNDELL ELECTRIC TRACTION CO. (Lisilr-ro). (Incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to ...

... The issue of the Army Estimates is a necessary, but unpleasant, reminder to the people of this country of a truth which they have been a good deal too apt to forget--that the British Empire, being as it is the biggest show on earth, is not to be run by two men and a boy on nothing a year and find yourself. On the present occasion the Estimates divide themselves, naturally, into two parts, ...

... THE BOER REVOLT. FLANK MOVEMENT FROM MODDER RIVER. THE MILITARY SITUATION. tBY OUR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.} 1he last official telegram from Lord Roberts, of the 5th inst., from Cape Town, reiterates, a No change in the situation; but notwith- standing this, we know, fortunately, that the situation is each day rapidly changing in our favour in many respects, excepting as to our beleaguered ...

... OCCASIONAL N OTES. Sir Michael Hicks Beach will be engaged between now and the end of the financial year in the interesting arithmetical problem of trying to make two and two add up to make five, He can't solve it, of course, except by borrowing. The real question is, where is he to get the deficiency from ? Whatever the ultimate cost of the war may be-and that need. not trouble him for a few ...

... 3T O: WE: V A: XJ K M S m3 D, The MILK and CREAM supplied by the AYLESBURY DAIRY COMPANY, LIMITED, are GUARANTEED to be PURE and FREE FROM PRESERVATIVES of any desoription whiaterer. This has been conclusively proved by independent evidence given by MEMBERS of the INSTITUTE of CHEMISTRY and of the SOCIETY of PUBLIC ANALYSTS before the DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE appointed by the LOCAL GOVERNMENT ...

... THE CROSSING OF THE TUGELA, INCIDENTS OF THE FIGHTING. FRERE CAMP, Thursday.-The most interesting incident in the demon, stration on our front on Monday when the Tugela was crossed was the suc- cessful retirement of the 78th Battery under a heavy artillery fire from a gun placed below the crest of a hill on a line with Spion Kop. Shrapnel swept across the front of our guns and the limbers were ...

... OCCASIONAL -NTOTES. ' ' -Admiral Seymnour's account of the retreat of.the Two Thousand gives some idea of the difficulties which are likely to. beset. the allied fores -if an advance is made, as in all human probability it will..fiave to be made, on Peking. Everybody knew that the Chinese could fight well, but everybody did not know that thy 'had largely modified their traditional pteference ...

... PALL M ,AL ' ' J U L N U B E G 1OA r' 777- .T O WJ.t.f R. E A D Y. II - : - Hjas for' fron tispiece m an xq iste ho og avoCuat er the pic ure by, J. M dt eil( W histler,' _thie pJrtrait of . t e C I V ' o S u h A rc .~. . . Thoms Calyle in iheCorpraton ,Ga llery, at Contaiffs ~a chamn a ril on Eiabeth Chudleigh, yM.Asi Glasgow. ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~by M rs.; Parr. C h ar m in g ~~S t ories ~ n e re ...

... THE MONEY MARKET. dmanod again, id call loans are IUO1ed at . - i' ccot., witL tho erniet tgure for tixtures. 11iscounts are qttiet, h.t ratei are s1e 'ty, e nd nnO, 4 per cent. continus the geticral ml.rket quoteauion f(,' I thlree ii.,nith.8 titl p.mler. to, Ri.. ! *, I ~ s I ri rlt. 4 tVi. :. l. y ' - .' i f9i. HIclttn, , 1 2' Sh:ort 4 ' - ' .r.~0j00,1j, i t5,,3 ~-'.r. hort .ti ~,.. ...

... SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN has reduced the doctrine that it is the business of an Opposition to oppose to a farcical degree of absurdity. If he was bound from his titular position to disagree with Mr. CHAMBERLAIN'S action on the' Australian Commonwealth Bill, he might at least have advanced some reasons for his displeasure that were a little more dignified than the babble of the nursery. The ...

... A WEEK zAN PEKING BEFORE THE STORM. The followj.,: extrscts are taken !joat letters writte; V, the late Father Louis Gaillard, wlvo vvas in ' tentzi aniid i'ekig fort Aniil :12 i Aipri 30 of this yg.ar. Th .iter::iappearc ;ie rnsoa i: a 'eln.! ivie w'hc t Gatfier C'aillard t.-is! ' vC a! 7 al th a Jtk jo.lee eil .y rai: lo 1 entsn.. ! 5lwavh.i service is ahominiabie*, firty, hotit ...

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