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GENERAL NEWS.

Mme. Clara Buit's Return to Bagland.

The Albert Hall was pretty well filled for Mme. Clara Buit's -concert on June 8, says the Daily Mail. It was her re-appearates after eighteen months and tha greeting sie bad was tremendɩ us. She sang a variety of thinge Verdi, Beethoven: Brahma, nd "Home, sweet home." Inequali- ties of tone are stil! to be detenter in the range of this fompas voice, but the majestic lower notes have a sppority, full-throated and wondrously organ-like iu quality, that is unexample, and sent Saturday's audience almost wild- with enthusiasm. Mr. Kennerlay. Rumford als Bang.

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Corporal Shot in Sham Fight.

While leading his squarin a series of rushes on the ass itangs at Aldershot, on Wednesday, Corporal Kelly, of the Munster Fusiliers, was accidentally bor doad by Private Garvey. It stated that the safe y catch of Garvey's rifle was pushed back, and that when it caught in his equipment a cartridge in the rifle was fired. The bullet stinok Kelly in the back. Garvey was in the rear rank of the squat, and the ballet passed between the men in front,' Corporal Kelly was twenty-seven and was but to complete his Army service,

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fish language to qualify for service another, a trick which astarally Chinamen, each with an empty ina British ship he must some- is simplified by the difficulty to drum on his shoulder, he slid Just after the news of the time find the ways of Western the Occidental observer of dia- down the gangway, under the arrival of Bonaparte in Elha came authority hard to understand, tinguishing between thirty-two noses of the watchful offolals, the news of the death of the with its unace untable antipathy Chinamen and one Chinaman and round the corner of the Emprees Josephine, his divorced to his quiet game of fan-tax and seen thirty-two times. There are harbour shed. wife, at the age of 51, he was he merely seek to earn

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John has not been coached by his opportunity of evasion they may catarrbal fever, but suddenly as boarding house or half an be obliged to exchange their mild sumed such a malignant oharacter hour proviously for nothing. vocations for some months' hard thas it carried her off in three hat would you do if the ship labour in the stokehold of a days. She received with equal struck a rock?" piety and resignation all the

He blinke steamer bound for Calcația or attentions of religion. She had the red ctively before he bloudly the Plate. melancholy consolation ofexpiring aware that be would Makee The methods of substitation ...in the arms of her daughter and noise," and thereby passes with followed by those impersonators her son, from whom she had been flying colours, being permitted to are ingenious and varied. On long separated. A few hours before print his own personal bierogly one occasion the ordeal at the her death she took pleasure in phio on the ship'e articles with shipping office had been more than anticipating the regret of the the stab of an official pen. But usually severe.

The officiating zumerous families whom she had not all of his fellows are so emperintendent had boxed the the happiness to oblige, and the fortunate. A meus-room boy who compass, and led his unhappy hope seemed to bring with it a has been carefully primed with pupils through the intricacies of great alleviation of her pains. all the English that is necessary the English language until they Java-China-Japan Line. for the performance of his simple were willing to admit for the sake The report for 1913 of the fates on board ship collapses of peace that their last ship had Java-China-Japan Line states hopelessly under examination on 180 boilera and was driven under that the contract with the G wero-

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