The Whistler Exhibition at the New Oallery closed on Saturday, when the rooms were thronged with visitors. Few picture shows in recent years have aroused so much public interest. It is the interest of curiosity perhaps more than considered judgment—the attraction of a baffling p

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There is coaster nation to-day in-tbe Q.P.O. amongst the engineering staff. On Saturday last a notice emanating from the Lords of the Treasury was posted up informing the staff that, in pursuance order issued in 1898, no annual leave would in future granted men who had not been

JEWEL HAUL ISLINGTON. Burglars have mad© a considerable haul of jewellery at the shop of Mr. Lewis Pollack, jeweller and pawnbroker, Lirerpooi-road, Islington. Admission was obtained through empty shop next door into, the yard at the rear the jeweller’s. Them a window ires forced

Morning.—To Grand Canary via Spain; Shpplemen’arv St. Thomas, Porto Bico, St. Domingo, and Havll FroS Packet; to Mauritius via Marseilles and Colombo, sod Seychelles via Marseilles and Aden iParoel Malls). Evening.—To Grand Canary and West Coast of AW,-a Liverpool; to Egypt .by

REOPENING EASTER MONDAY.

To avoid damage previous to removal to GRAFTON STREET,BORO STREET, W.

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