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AUNTY ON PASTELS.—Aunt Towzer looked in at the Groavimor Gallery the other day, and declared flatly her inability to understand what she called the " Pestile Exhibition." "Which watery colours and is easy enough, but how them pastiles, as look like Loth, is .one is beyond me. Bu

Before putting coloured clothes into water, it i. best to look them carefully over, and if there are any grease spots, they should be washed out first, as they cannot be seen after the articles are wet. Do wash in very hot water. Warm water does as good work and is not as trying

FIRST CLASS COOK & CONFECTIONER THE QUADRANT RESTAURANT. LONDON BILL OF FARE DAILY. BEST ACCOMMODATION. EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS, GRILL ROOM, etc., ADDED.

The third grand autumn exhibition in comnotion with the Bournemouth and District Chrysanthemum Society, which is under the immediate patrooage of the Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, was held en Wednesday and Thursday in the Winter Garden and Court adjoining the hotel M

SOUTH DORSET FORHOUNDS.—Thureday, Maaton Down—at 11. LORD PORIIIAN'S FOXHOUNDS.—Friday, Whitchurch —at 11.15. EARL OF PORTSMOUTH'S FOXHOUND/3.—Thursday (this day), Garland Moor; Saturday, Morchard Road Station—at 11. BLACKMOOR VALE FOXHOUNDl3.—Thursclay (thisday), Nether Compton

OVER 1,600 LIVES LOST. Letters from Yokohama state that with the partial restoration of telegraphic and railway communication reports have come in from all parts of the country confirming the misgivings as to the losseeand disasters caused by the recent floods and storms. But by

The custom, honoured by the observanes of centuries, of presenting London's elected chief magistrate to the people, as well as to the representatives of the Sovereign, was on Saturday an °maxima of marked interest to what wail perhaps the largest assemblage ever congregated is t

In the Court of the Queen's Bench on Monday, before Mr. Justice Denman and a special jury, the case of Afalan v. Young was called on for trial. It had been previously called on en Friday, when his lordship suggested that it was a case which could be more properly dealt with out