... ZIze CoeCg antb Aelief of wuntj, n A STIRRING story is unfolded in an interview which r's representative has had with an officer who has just retn! Kumassi. Events in West Africa have hardly received i tion they deserved, South Africa and China seeming iif everything else. The tale of the relief of the besieged g Kumassi, however, is a glorious episode, reminding us details of the story of ...

... (Lhc r Tourt IT is now settled that the date of the Queen's departure from Osborne for Balmoral is to be the 31st inst. While Her Majesty is staying at her Highland home there are to be no gaieties of any sort. Even- the famous Braemar gathering will be foregone. In the meantime at Osborne there are signs of the breaking up of the family gathering. Last week saw the last large 1 oyal dinner ...

... Vtlub uommunto BY MARMADUKE THE Reign of Terror is at hand in Whitehall ! A first-class clerk in a Government office was once a man who was to be much envied. He owed his appointment to patronage, and the same influence, together with time, gradually raised him to the higher and best-paid posts in the Department. IHe strolled to the office late in the day and left it early ; he worked ...

... TIE little company of professionals, pressmen, one press lady, meinbers of the staff, and others, who assembled a' the Palace Theatre, on Wednesday even- ing, an hoar before the curtain rose, were delighted to find Mr Charles Morton so hate and hearty on the anniversary of his eighty-'rst birthday. The doyen of the music halls vas accompanied by Mrs Morton, who must have felt keenly gratified ...

... the I his (FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDSENT.) Rochdale Rushbearing still survives to connect the old order with the new. To the old showman the dying out of the picturesque features of many of the wakes and fairs must bring regret for thle days that are p~ast. Rocbdale Winake, however, still maintains its ancient traditions, and the whole town and district enlters into the annual Rushibearing and ...

... po]XIIILL AVIDE AWAKE. The spirited and flourishing little watering-place stiicc is chiefly owned by Earl Delawarr has, since -hit Dionday last, been tinder the superintendence-so Ir as entertailment is concerlned-of the active and i ?? Mir James M. Glover, so well known as crg orchestral codutr. Unlike many of inN Bexhill possesses a genuine lder and Its aongert room is not placed at the ...

... LETETS TO THE EDITOR. AR~E SMO=flG AND) D1!INEING IM]1 M?V? ' girf-T am -not ~eanened to reply to the~ &Snswoer a of your corresponidents to my previows letter, as they do not seem to see that there is z wide dif- fierenace botween the man who donies himself a pleasure fo'r a pspecifio object and the man who declares thiat the indijigencp in the pleasure is Sinful. Tie first exerc ises his ...

... YOLUNTEERS AND IRELAND. The Secretary for War has decided that sanctiiO cannot be given for the formation in Ireland of a detachment of Volunteers, members of English or Scottish corps, temporarily living in that counMtY; neither can it be allowed that any drills performed by such Volunteers in Ireland shall be reckoned iv the number of drills required for efficiency. Our D3ver Correspondent ? ...

... KITCHENER AND METHUEN g hILLOWING. b a PRESSING HIM .IHARD. . 11 ti ESCAPE OF BRITISH PRISONERS. t 2 t] ESCAPE OF ELANDS RIVER a GARRISON. HORE'S COLUMN SAFE. C SPECIAL TELEGRAM a _ ?? CARRINGTON'S FUTILE MARCE p TREATMENT OF PRISONEPRS. cl P fi A CORPRPONDENT'S STORY. r (FROM OUR WAR CORRESPONDENTJ PREITORIA, Tuesday, 11.55. am. s Lt.-CoL Hore's column, which was reported to hate been ...

... LONDOX, M1IONDA Yl August 13. Tho funeral of the lite Lordl Russell of Killowen will take placo at Epsom Cemetery I -LIV 4 t'1 ' 144 t. L ' FLtV t4.4 U U 4. t V to-morrow. A nwss m.oetingr of men employed by the G reat Eastern Railway ('ompany wvas held at the Theatre uIovafl, Str.tiord. last evening_, to re-n-ve re orts fromn delegates nppoillt-1 to I 1av tboir demni.-iI before th. directors. ...

... A MAN OF THE MOMENTS G ENRA ClRTSTIAN 'DE WET. A STAUNCi,. ANGLOPIIOBIE The last few mxonths of thle war Lave been illumiiined for the Boers by thoe brsllitit tactios aigtt ttashin_> YlLsds m.a1d 1upoun Lord Roberts's rllt flallilk, and line.S of 1ostmtulaliat.onI by (Geiieral 'hristiaii l)e Wet. Indeed, it is iiot too IlUlth to sriy th;at lis 'llful leading and fre(qultent *,l's.,topi 1Itll. ...

... LARGE BEQUESTS TO INSTITUTIONS. The estate has been ?? at £270,806 9s. 6d., .ross, includ:ng personality of the net value of £210.806 9s. 6d.: of M-Hr. John Spofforth Dixon, of Ifollybank, Di)den, Iiants. and of South Norwood. who died on the 9th, July last. aged 87 years. and the execcutrix and executors of whose will of the 25th October, 18-0. with six codicils. the last detest 27th M-arch. ...