The Clarence Pier Petition Soothes* prosented wry inviting appearance on afternoon, when the annual cafe chantaiet arranged by the ladies of St. Agatha* parish in aid of tbo church funds was held, instead of the uninteresting rows of chairs which are usually seen the interior of

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GROCERS & FEDERATION OFFICIALS CONFER. OFFICIAL ST AT E M ENT. LIVERPOOL. Friday. From Liverpool we have received the following official statement the subject of the soap combination : “Officials of the Federation of'Grocers’ Asso ciations of the United Kingdom have had a long i

Among the many books of memoiru, letters, etc., which are feature of the present publishing season will be included two volumes of Personal and Literary Lettem Robert. First Earl of Lytton.” They have been edited by Lady Betty Balfour. The book contain »« number of portraits and

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DU) NOT KNOW HIS OWN HOUSE. Before Mr. Plowden. at Marylebone yester day. was a carman named Joaeph Phillips, of 21, Waverley-road, Paddington, w was charged assaulting Then. Keener, a bricklayer, living next door, by knocking him down an area. The prosecutor, whose head was sur

Court-road . »n<| GRAKTON STREET. DUBLIN. BUNGALOW COTTAGES AND THEIR FURNISHING. A ,V.' page Booklet, containing PLANS ami ESTIMATES for Six DIFFERENT COTTAGES. NOW READY. GRATIS and POST FREE.

TO-NIGHT, at THE BEAUTY OF BATH ELLA LINE TERRIBS and BK\'MOUR HICKS; Mu** Filippl. Bfdeey Fairbrother. Barbara Deane. Mollie lowell Lealie. Merru Sin den; Meeara Stanley BrKt. Lngg L Caird. M King. W. Bishop. Kianaird. Valchera. Kenneth Royce

AUSTRALIAN SENATE ADHERES TO POLICY. MELBOURNE, Oct. 11 After the Senate, hy 17 vote* to five, had rejected the amendment of the House of Representatives to tho Bill granting preference on British goods—namely, the deletion of the provision that such British goods should importe

CHAOS AND EXTRAVAGANCE Unification of the City of London for poor rating purposes was under discussion yesterday at a special meeting of the Court of Common Council. The City is divided into 112 parishes, each with its own overseer and assistant over seers, each with its own ass