PORTSMOUTH. OBEE 31.1903.

OOSHAM CYCLE AGENT CAtJTXONED. Ob teptwobar Jut youßif man named H«- » ton bind bicycle at Sr. T. S. Adcock'n did sot return. Apprehended at Sliadon laid that he aold the machine to cycle aceet at Coaham lor dl.—Sent. Willard meet toCoaham and I onad the maeUM at the of John Pet

The Bristol “Times and Mirror” says it authorised to state that Sir Michael Hicks Beach will, like Mr. Balfour, attend the Dolphin banquet at Bristol on Colston Day, November 13th. and that be intends to support the Premier his efforts to carry out the Government programme outli

When will tho next General Election come about? Politiciana are wondering, and merchants and traders—to whom prolonged fiscal agitation would be sadly unsettling—are making anxious inquiries. If the Ministerial wirepullers can have their way. the Dissolution is yet far-off, thou

LEAGUE IN AUSTRALIA. At meeting at Melbourne on Wednesday, presided over by the Lord Mayor, it was reeolvcd to form branch of the Nary League in Melbourne. Sir John Forrest, Federal Minister of Defence, and General Sir E. T. Hutton, Commandant of the Federal Forces, spoke in supp

Men and women who have slept for periods six months and longer seldom live after their awakening. An exception this, however, found in the case of a Russian of the name of Fiatkowska. who is reported to have slept seven months in his home in a small village twenty miles from Mos

Robinson.) ST. JAMES'S HALL. SATURDAY POPULAR CONCERTS. SECOND CONCERT THE SEASON. TO-MORROW (Saturday) AFTERNOON, Oct. 31. *t 3. THE KRUSE QUARTET. Kruse. j Mr. A Urol Hobday. Mr. Haulu inwards. I Mr. Porcy Such. Solo Planoforte—Mr. MAX MATER tMancheefe:). Vocalist-Signor GAN L

The Housing of the Working Classes Act passed last Session introduced, is well known, some important amendments into the hitherto existing law the subject. The Local Government Board have just issued circular the various Metropolitan Borough Councils drawing their attention to t

Before Mr. Justice Kennedy and special jury in the King’s Bench Division Mr. Walter Hilliers, tea merchant, of Mincing-lane, sued the L. and N.W. Railway Co. to recover damages for personal injuries sustained under rather unusual circumstances. On the 10th of July last year the