... before the Groat Waasdd f%&:.gnfia%fifialdlfi&&%&fi teams as well—but nof the weather. Thougl the sur’shohasbrilliawtlye of Christmas Day 3 and the weathey leoked like stiffening into a settled frosty week end, down came the rain pitilessly during the whele ...

... presented a very pleasing appearance. Thery was a huze Christmas {ree in the children's Each ward;, and it was covered with gifts of the patients received a sub-tantial gift U R The usttil Christmas dinner The presidont, Mr: Austin Pilkington, the chairman ...

... “'SOLDIER BOY” AT THE THEATRE. We usually expect pantomime at Christmas time, but nouve will grumble &% Mr. Johmson's execellent: taste in presenting a chorming production oft Messrs, Macdonald and Young's at the Theatre this week, in place of the usual ...

... THE XMAS HOLIDAYS. CELEBRATIONS IN THE HOSPITALS. The Christmas holiday passed verv auietly in =t Holens, wicre the popular enjevment N s gonel cenfined. ...

... ¥ Y * We have lcarned ty eclebrate Chiristinas for more sohorly than our gramdfailhers. Charles Kunight, deseribing his Christmas in London @ conbury ego, wrote : “Drunkenness provailed everywhere; not shamoe-faced drunkenness, erceping in maudiin he ...

... of gatherings that have taken place at the lingineer Hall during the festive zeason. To begin with, on the atternoon of Christmas Day the children of the members of the Corps were entertained. There were nearly GOO present, and a considerable percentage ...

... LIVERPOOL COUNTY COMBINATION. CHRISTMAS DAY. Sutton Manor Colliery 2, Sutton Com- mercial 1 BOXING DAY Sutton Manor Colliery 1, Birchley Untd 1 SATURDAY, Suatton Manor Colliery 3, Ashton Militury Camp 2. ...

... npon the way they are treated at this season. It is a mistake to allow the tubers to remain heaped in bags or boxes affter Christmas, because they are lable to begin to sprout prematurely. and if the first sprouts or 2rowths are destroyed the crop is not ...

... HOUSE Parlour-Mai, wanted after : Christmas; must he experienced and have good references; also Kitchen Maid, age about 18 or 20.—Apply Mrs. Dixon- Nuttall, Ingleholme, leccleston Park, Pre-- cot ...

... arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday on board the ...

... very much congested, Mr. Lloyd George went gown to the House of Commons, and said that the ouly hope of prorogation before Christmas lay in the postponement of several important measures. He announced the adoption of a long-advocated reform—the carrying ...

... comfeortabiy it the torwards get the ball in reasonable measure. The Rees, will not be represented by e came tram as on Christmas Dav., ...