... FOOTBALL. GAMES SPOILT BY THE HOLIDAYS. Despite the difficulty of obtaining players during the holiday season there was no lack of interesting football ini the metropolitan district on Saturday. The most attractive fixture was at Richmond to which club the Fettesiali-Lorettonials paid their annual visit. The tour of this vell-known Organization is always interesting, but this year it is more ...

... FOURTH EDITION, . THE BOER REVOLTo POSI'TION ON THE -TUGELA. SI4ELL FIRE AT MODDER RIVER. THE YEOMANRY AND VOLUNTEEkS. THE MILITARY SITUATION, [BY OUR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.1 The positioia refiiaiils practically unchaulged, as r ikrds our troops in thle several spheres, excepting in a few details. We haveofficifil irfifr- mation respectinog all of them to the 31st of December; but from ...

... SPOKMG De'wLLIGEC]. H}I8T PARR OLUB OLD YKAR SERErI& A MAIDEN HURDLI RACE PAT of 100 oWm; PUM4o to reoceive 10 aovs. Two1t11. M r. R. 13Z. ?? L 41D, ,b. byoh Benbecula. S yes. DUY ?lb ?? ama 1 Mr. ?? U2.LRUG y , 10b -, 3m p 2 Lord ?? E8CTJIUA s yels ,. .Junw S Alao ran; Lun, Biob, Ii5 Msgeel, to Bopow OrvAne Put., Bol ock, adtn te (Oinuer traed by O o) Betting: 2Etns on y 1brpou 5 to 1 t ?? ...

... TOeTBxLU TH LZAGIJE OH.MPIONSHF. With the erce.tvon perxh, of tho 4#fw t Notts Forest by Preston lort Si d o ill' ,fortune this yew-theo coue- of ?? pISY ta the League Championship ws a in acmd- ance with forta. Nhofilold U e A 1 Bvc4 the eay victims they had locked lar, but it is qua. tionable whether ?? expcted sueh . score as e gois to none. 4 Wu a wonrf Victory, by brilliant football, =d ...

... Reviews. PAOLO AND FRANCESCA.* I I E ■ 1 Tut doubtful taste of the publishers has attached to the final pages of this volume large number of laudatory criticisms of Mr. Phillips’s earlier works. In many of these the opinion is expressed that he is •‘a poet of great promise,” that “he has a great future before him,” end so forth. Now we, too, have a great admiration for much of Mr. Phillips’s ...

... SOUND LORE.♦ Dr. Sweet has gallantly stepped into the breach. He saw that the labours of Passy, Von der Gubelentz, Jesperson, and Victor, not to mention Franke, Gouin, and Zupitza, were all more or less unsatisfactory. A guide to the practical study of languages was needed, not merely such humdrum languages as French and German, but outlandish ones such as Arabic and Chinese. Mr. Sweet has ...

... Colonel J G. B. STOPFORD Sir HENRY HOWORTH, K.C.’.E. M.P The Rev. Dr. WIRGMAN (Canon of Grahamstown Cathedral) “The South African Conspiracy against British Rule. The Continuity of Catholicism.” The Prince of Journalists.” The Ghost of Dr. Harris.” Climate and the Atmosphere.” “Can Sentences be Standardired?” The Jews in France. The War Relief Funds.” The Cemmon Mule.” “The Tinkerin) ...

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... To the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. Sir, —Though every credit is due to the splendid patriotic reply to the Government’s request for volunteers for South Africa, what is the use of risking these fine men’s lives unless at the same time the Government take vigorous measures to immediately stop the Transvaal getting supplies and ammunition through Delagoa Bay ? If Portugal won’t listen to ...

... SPORTING INTELLIGENCE THE TWO THOUSAND AND THE DFRBY. Nothing could be more uninteresting than the sport which has taken place recently under National Hunt Rules. Under the best of conditions the olass of animals competing at the various mee;- ings which provide croscouatry racing is very poor. The unsettled weather haa made matters a good deal worse, frost alternating 'with thaw and iog, so ...

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... spans EmmomaL GAthTgh NOT31. Alo theto 40ths, m Mameschaur to-daf Wu mlismahbly Wet ad dulL, them was a fair muster kin the Now Barita onelasure. for the 4ooxscluding stage Of the fixtitr.. Tho Now Yoears Hurdle Handicap brought out evon oo ptitorg, of whom Cnaaovr, OY-oerus, an ?? Songstress had each &, War iollowing. Neither of these, however, eatilt score, the verdict beingj secured by ...