(FROM OUR OWN CORRSPONDENT.) ROYAL.-Sole Lessee, Mr W. Morton; Managing Resident Director, Mr W. F. Morton. - Mr Qeo. Edwardes's company, in The Geisha, is paying a return visit here this week. Miss Hilda Moody as 0 Mimosa San and Miss Violet Lloyd as Molly Seamore both achieve

I MONEY MARE;T RE~PORT. The demand fer investment securities has been greatly stimulated by the distribution of dividend money, and its effect is visible throughout nearly the whole list of stocks. Apart from this busineps remains on a limited scale, speculative activity not havi

I sitgratu"e. The "Encore Annual" appeals strongly to frequenters of the music halls, It presents its readers with 600 portraits of celebrities, together with some very good stories. Here is one of them by Mr. Bob Leonard:- I was playing at the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, where we

I I sIasltcI I " THE LEADERS OF THE REFOBMA- TION." The firbt of a series of sermons on ?? Leaders of the Reformation," to be delivered on consejutive Wednesdays in All Saints' Church, wag preached on Wednesday by the Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair, D.D., of London, to a crowded congre

for INBHETION la Th* Timet, the London Gazette (p.blished by authority), and aU London and Country N*w«- Paper*. £al*?s bj gLuttton. 1Y MESSRS, -J k W. HEATHCOTJ (W. HEATHCOTE— E. PARTRIDGE*). THE MART, DERBY. TO PARTIES FURNISHING AND OTHERS. MESSRS. J. and W. HEATHCOTE will SE

¥ N the matter of the Mayoralty of Derby there are *- signs of a change in the outlook. The letter which we published lest week from "Civis" pretesting against the stereotyping of the doctrine of seniority has found in echo in several quarters, and strong solicitations have been

MORTALITY IN THb ?? TOWNB Tke Registrar-General reports that tiie annual rate of mortality last week ia the 33 great towns of Eng- land and Wales averaged 169 per 1,000 of their aggre- gate population. The rates were — Birkenhead... 16 Gateshead ?? 21 Nottingham 17 Birmingham. 23

PURIFIED PETROLEUM A SUBSTITUTE FOE COD-LIVEE OIL. The medical profession bas foond in Angier's Petro- leum Emulsion a palatable and most efficient substitute for OOd-liver oil withoat any of its disagreeable nauseating properties. It not only possesses a food valne equal to that

The Timet says : It will be a national calamity if this waek. when the decision of the cotton ?? will be announced respecting the Hesters' proposal. a conflict ensues. Mischievous though the struggle in 1892-3 was, a strike on a large scale at this time wotu be much more injurio

The annual meeting of tbe Derby Branch of the Chnrch Pastoral Aid Society was held in the Albert Hall on Monday evening, Sir Henry Bemrose M P. presiding. Among tbose present were the Revs. J. Howell, T. C. Hrirs, H. Martin, and J. E. Matthews, Dr. Ogle, Dr. Legge, Mr. D. Rikcar