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CUftltKNT SPORT. I In very creditable fashion, Gloucestershire drew their match in the cricket county championship com- petition with Middlesex, at Lord's, on Saturday. Th* Visitors had to face a deficit of 484, and recorded oi3 for five wickets in a little over four hours, G. L. Jessop hitting finely for 124. Wrat hall also played a great defensive innings of 83. What the result. would have been had Middlesex made their oppo- nents follow-on on the second day of the natch, as they might have done, is a matter open to question. At Derby, Surrey easily defeated the home county by five wickets on Saturday. Overnight, with nine wickets to fall, the visitors were left requiring 10S to win, and these they obtained for the loss of four more wickets. Abel played a fine innings of 88 runs. Requiring only 49 runs to win, and having an innings to play, Notts easily defeated Essex on Saturday by nine wickets. Thanks to the magni- ficent bowling of E. R. Wilson, who took 14 wickets in the match for only 75 runs, Cambridge Univer- sity easily defeated Worcester, at Cambridge, by seven wickets. The first meet of the Coaching Club took place on Saturday, at Hyde-park, in favourable weather. Twenty-six coaches appeared, as compared with 16 at the club's earliest gathering last year, and the turn-out was admired by a large number of specta- tors. The rain of Saturday evening came too late to spoil the proceedings at the London polo grounds, and following on the Coaching Club meet there were big attendances at both Hurlingham and Ranelagh, where besides the usual polo matches there were other attractions. The report from America that Mr. Harry Vardon, who won the open golf championship of America at Chicago last year, would defend his title this June at Boston (U.S.) is incorrect. Mr. Vardon stated on Saturday at Muirfield, where he is practising for the open championship, that he would not defend his title in America this year. At Buxton, on Saturday, in fine weather, the Duke of Devonshire Challenge Golf Cup was played for. The best score was returned by Mr. E. Jackson, North Manchester, with 92 less 12, equals 80. The two next best scores were Mr. J. T. Lomas, 93 less 11, equals 82, and Mr. W. M. Leake, 87 less 5, equals 82. At the close of play the Duke of Devon- shire presented his cup to Mr. Jackson. His Grace said he should have liked to have accepted the cap- tain's invitation for a round on the links, but unfor- tunately he began to play golf late in life, and was lorry to say he was a very poor performer. Golf was ? most excellent game, and players were able to get » great amount of capital exercise out of it. He was pleased to present the prize to Mr. Jackson, the winner. Cheers were given for the duke, and a hearty vote of thauks was accorded him. The croquet championship meeting was concluded at Wimbledon on Saturday, Mr. Roper and Miss Cowie retaining the Double Championship. Details Ladies' and Gentlemen's Open Doubles Champion- ship.—Final Round: Mr. R. N. Roper and Miss Cowie (holders) beat Mr. A. Brigstocke and Mrs. Brigstocke by 11 to 23. Handicap Singles.—Semi- Final Round: C. E. Willis (owes 2) beat T. M. Zarifi (rec, 4) by 23 Sir Collingwood Hughes (6) beat Mrs. Hassard (4) by 20. Final Round: C. E. Willis beat Sir Collingwood Hughes by 3. In an exhibition match Miss Gower (lady champion) beat R. N. Roper (champion) by 11 to 16. The Irish Lawn Tennis Championships were con- tinued in Dublin on Saturday, which ought to have been the last day of the tournament, but owing to loss of time, occasioned by wet weather, all the finals save one and several matches in the concluding rounds of some of the events had to remain over. The only final reached was in the All-Comers' Singles between the younger Doherty (All-England) and S. H. Smith (Stroud). The latter was not seen at his best, send- ing many of his returns into the net, and apparently being knocked about by the gusty character of the day. Doherty played a cool, accurate game, and won by three sets to love, thus gaining the right to challenge his brother, R. F. Doherty, who has held the cup for two years, for the championship. H. L. Doherty and Mrs. Durlacher defeated Smith and Miss Martin in the semi-final of the Mixed Doubles, and Mrs. Durlacher defeated Miss' Martin in the Ladies' Championship Singles. After a hard match in the All-Comers' Doubles, Smith and Ball Greene defeated Eaves and Boyd rather cheaply. The London County Bowling Club was opened on Saturday with a fixed 11 jack competition, in which 135 players took part. The scoring was low, gene- rally, as the winners—11 out of a possible 72-will show. Mr. J. W. Dingles, of the New Zealand Bowling Team, took the first prize, a silver cup, whilst Mr. Owen M'Sally, Abbey-park, Leicester, and Iffr. S. Nathan, Australian Bowling Team, were winners, respectively, of the gold and silver medals. The result of the opening day's play in the Surrey Jad Somerset match at Kennington Oval on Monday &ft matters in a fairly level state, as against a com- pleted innings of 247 by the home lot, the Western County replied with 85 for the loss of two wickets. The fielding and bowling of the visitors was won- derfully good throughout the whole of the day. Thanks to admirable displays by Pearson and Bowley, Worcestershire, on their own ground, on Monday, had the best of Warwickshire, as when play ceased for the day they were only 77 runs behind their rivals' total of 234, and jitill had nine wickets to fall. Wood and King also batted finely for Leicester. Some curious play was seen in the Kent and Gloucester- shire match at Gravesend, as, after the first three home wickets had realised 191 runs, the whole side was out for 242. Humphreys (43), Baker (89), and Alec Hearne (40) batted well. Gloucestershire did badly, losing six wickets for 39 runs, but Paish and Kitcat subsequently came to the rescue before stumps were drawn for the day. The South African cricketers were called upon to oppose a very Btrong M.C.C. team at Lord's on Monday, includ- ing Dr. W. G. Grace and Prince Ranjitsinhji, but they acquitted themselves well, scoring 150 against 168. In a singularly low-scoring game, the highest individual effort on the first day was an innings of 62 by W. Shalders on behalf of the Colonials. Warwickshire accomplished a fine bat- ting performance against Lancashire at Birmingham on Monday, scoring 329 for two wickets. W. G. Quaife (136 not out) and Kinneir (141 not out) added 260 for the third wicket before stumps were drawn an the opening day. At Bournemouth Yorkshire were batting all day on Monday against Hampshire, their first innings closing just on time for 365. Towards this total F. Mitchell contributed a fine innings of 100, while Hirst hit vigorously for 81. At Lords, on Tuesday, M.C.C. and Ground com- pleted their second innings against the South Africans for 170. The Colonials required 189 to win, but were all out for 135, so the club were victorious by 53 runs. Somerset, at Kennington Oval, took their first-innings score against Surrey to 239, or eight in arrear. Surrey in their second innings had on Tuesday night put on 298 at the expense of eight wickets. At Bournemouth, Hamp- shire, going in against the Yorkshire score of 365, were dismissed in their first innings for 75, and in the follow-on for 208, leaving the Northern county winners by an innings and 82 runs. Gloucestershire managed to raise their first-innings total against Kent at Gravesend to 186. The home team had a useful advantage of 56, but did poorly in their second innings, and were all out for 142. The visitors, with 199 to make for victory, had at the close of the second day's play lost five wickets for 127 runs. Warwickshire continued on Tuesday to score freely against Lancashire at Birmingham, and he declared the innings closed when their total stood at 532 for four wickets. Kinneir made 215 not out, and W. G. Quaife 177. Lancashire replied with 253, of which Tyldesley contributed 118, and, having to follow on, they obtained four without loss before the close of the second day's play, Worcestershire completed their first innings against Leicestershire at Worcester for 304, or 70 ahead, and Leicestershire made by Tuesday nightfall 212 in their second innings at the cost of six wickets. _?_ 
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A COUNTRY GIRL, coming from a morning walk, was told she looked as fresh as a daisy kissed by the dew; to which she innocently replied: You ve got my name right—Daisy but his name isn't Dew." "WHAT'S the matter with you ?" asked the sympa- thetic friend; an attack of grip ?" No, this isn't grip. I haven't time to stay at home and lend for a doctor. This is simply a bad cold."
THE SPITALFIELDS TRAGEDY.
THE SPITALFIELDS TRAGEDY. Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, coroner, resumed his inquiry at the Stepney Borough Coroner's-court on the "lth inst. into the circumstances attending the death of Mary Ann Austin, aged 28 years, the wife of a stoker, who died in the London Hospital on the ::íth nIt. from stabs received in a common lodging- house, 35, Dorset-street, Spitalfields, the previous morning. William Austin, the husband of the murdered woman, was present in court in the custody of two warders from Holloway-gaol, and watched the proceedings with marked interest. Superintendent Mulvaney, H Division, and Detective-inspector Divall watched the case for the Covimissioner of Police; and Mr. G. Q. Roberts, house governor of the London Hospital, appeared on behalf of that institution. Daniel Sullivan, of 4, Paternoster-row, Spitalfields, a waterside labourer, deposed that he occasionally took charge of the lodging-houses belonging to his brother-in-law, Mr. Crossingham, which included 35, Dorset-street. The witness answered the coroner's questions in such a manner that he was at last warned that he would get into trouble unless he told the truth. He then said that he went to 35, Dorset-street on Sunday, the 26th ult., between seven and eight o'clock. Henry Moore, the deputy, subse- quently asked the witness to assist in carrying a woman downstairs to a cab. This the witness did; but he had no knowledge of the reason why the woman was being removed, and he was not told to take her to any particular place. The cabman took them to the London Hospital, where the witness told the porter that he thought it was a queer case." If the porter said that he told him it was a stabbing case he would be telling an untruth. The witness went back to the lodging-house, and took no further steps in the matter. It was not a fact that he had been trying to prevent witnesses from telling the truth. Three detectives called at the house on the Sunday afternoon, and asked to be shown the room from which the witness had taken the woman. Although reminded by the coroner that the police knew nothing of the matter until the Monday, the witness maintained that the officers called on the Sunday and said he took them to cubicle No. 44, on the first floor. He admitted that he would not be surprised to know that the injuries were not inflicted in No. 44. He first heard that the woman was not injured on the first floor on Sunday. He did not tell the deputy to stick to it that the affair occurred in No. 44. Ho was not aware that the deceased's clothing had been destroyed. He did not know why she had been sent to the hospital in other people's clothing. The Coroner: Personally, I do not believe half you have said. The Witness: You can please yourself. I am telling the truth. The Coroner No, you are not. You may find you will suffer the consequences. The Witness I do not see where I have made a mistake. The Coroner: You have run as close to the wind as you possibly could. Maria Moore, the wife of the deputy at 35, Dorset-street, was recalled, and admitted that it was not true that she took the deceased and the man to No. 44, on the first door. She took them to No. 15, on tba third floor. The witness added that she had since recognised the man, and had so sworn at the police-court. The last couple were taken up by the witness to the third floor between one o'clock and half-past one on Sunday morning. At half-past one the gas was put out, and everything was then quiet. The witness still main- tained that she was awake all night, and that there was no cry for assistance; The gate was opened for the lodgers to go out about 6.30; but it was not till between 8.30 and nine o'clock that Mrs. Davis told the witness that a woman had been stabbed in No. 15. She went to No. 15, but found nothing disturbed at that time, nor did she see any blood on the wall. The bed was bloodstained, and the woman complained of having been hurt by a man. The Coroner: When was she removed to No. 44? The Witness Daniel Sullivan put her there on the way downstairs. Where was the doctor shown ? To No. 15. He is mistaken if he says it was No. 44. The witness added that Sullivan fetched the woman from No. 15, and not from No. 44. The witness had not told the truth before in order to screen Sullivan, by prevent- ing the police from seeing the blood in No. 15. Amy Day dressed the deceased in her own clothing. The Coroner: I am informed you are mistaken. The witness added that a green petticoat, a green silk handkerchief with a red stripe, and a stocking were found in No. 15 after the deceased had been removed. The witness did not notice any blood on the walls. The Coroner: We shall have evidence that there was blood on the north, south, and west sides of the cubicle, and also on the floor. The witness afterwards stated that a woman named Baker brought the clothing to her, and was told to burn it on account of its dirty condition. The witness did not notice that the clothing was bloodstained. She recognised Austin when he walked into the waiting-room after having given his evidence. The Coroner: Do you see the man now ? The Witness (after a long stare round the court): Yes there he is between the two policemen. Have you any doubt in your own mind at all?- No. sir. What was he wearing ?-A navvy's pair of boots, a cord pair of trousers, and a dark navy blue coat. You said before he had a billycock hat on ?-He had a cap on. And you said you would not know him again if you saw him. How came you, having recognised the man, to give such a description of him ? You said he was short. I do not see how you can ex- plain that ?—We see so many people. The Prisoner: Did you ever see me in that street before ? The Witness: Not before I let you up to that double. The Prisoner: You never let me have a double yet. Frances Davie, a lodger, recalled, stated that she told the lie about No. 43 at the instigation of the deputy Moore, who said it would save a lot of trouble. Henry Moore, the lodging-house deputy, recalled, stated that he told a lie about No. 44 as Sullivan had already misled the police. The witness told other witnesses to make false statements about the number of the cubicle. He did not think Austin was the guilty party. The witness, while giving evidence, was suddenly taken ill, and had to receive medical attention. The evidence of the woman Baker, a bedmaker, as to the condition of No. 15 cubicle having been given, the inquiry was again adjourned, the coroner re- marking that the whole afternoon had been prac- tically wasted through the lies and mistakes of the witnesses.
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I FOUR NEW V.C.-IS. WOUNDED MAN CAPTURES FIVE BOERS. The little bronze cross has been awarded to four soldiers whose qualifying exploits were laconically recorded in Tuesday night's London Gazette, Corporal J. J. Clements, of Rimii goon's Guides, is entitled to the honour of first mention by one of the most splendid individual deeds of the war. When dangerously wounded through the lungs and called upon to surrender near Strijdenburg in February, 1900, the indomitable fellow's answer was to throw himself into a party of five Boers, shoot three of them with his revolver, and force the whole party to surrender to himself and two unwounded pri vates. It was at Waggon-hill that Lieutenant (now Cap- tain and Brevet-Major) J. E. Masterson, 1st Devon Regiment, won his honours. He led one of the three companies that charged and captured a ridge held by the Boers. The Devons were then raked by the enemy's fire, and the lieutenant offered to carry a message asking the Imperial Light Horse, who were holding another ridge, to divert the Boer riflemen. Though badly wounded in both thighs, he succeeded in crossing the intervening open space of 100 yards, swept by a heavy cross fire, and crawled into the. British lines. His unselfish heroism," said the official chronicler, was undoubtedly the means of saving several lives. Rescuing a wounded man under fire and carrying him to a place of safety at Vredefort last July obtained the Cross for Captain N. B. House, N.S.W. Medical Staff Corps. The reward of Private C. Ravenhall, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, was gallantly earned at Colenso, where he left shelter to help the heroic remnant of artillerists that tried to save the guns.
CIIINA. I
CIIINA. I THE INDEMNITY QUESTION. I There is much dissension (says the limes Shanghai correspondent) among the Chinese regarding the proposed method of supplying the annual instal- ments for the payment of the indemnity owing to the attempts of the different Viceroys to minimise their contribution. Thus, Pekin objects to any interference with the tribute rice and the Manchu supply, suggest- ing the substitution of the likin, salt, and the native Fustoms, which the Southern Viceroys object to on the ground that as Pekin caused the trouble it is un- fair that they should pay the total cost. It is feared that the question is likely to cause serious inter-pro- vincial friction. The unconditional acceptance by China of the demands of the Powers for payment of an indemnity of 450,000,000 taels has caused great satisfaction among the Ministers. Practically only a few minor details now remain to be settled in order to complete the negotiations. It is expected, however, that some delay may arise in connection with the military evacuation, some of the Ministers being unable to see how China can guarantee payment of the indemnity to the satisfaction of the Powers, as required by the Joint Note. It is thought that it would be a mistake to have a large body of foreign officials collecting revenue. These officials would num ber over 2000 and their salaries would be very large, amounting in the aggregate to more than the ordinary Chinese official squeeze. The majority of the Ministers are in favour of raising the maritame Customs to 10 per cent., and of taking 5,000,000 taels from the likin tax, which would give about 23,000,000 taels after pay- ing interest on the already existing foreign debts. To this the Ministers would agree if the Chinese would abolish the likin on foreign merchandise. FRENCH DESIGNS IN THE SOUTH. I The Times Hong Kong correspondent is informed I that the French intend to annex Hai-nan in July. THE FOREIGN FORCES. J The German ironclad squadron, consisting of the battleships Brandenburg, Kursfurst, Friedrich Wil- helm, Weissenburg, and Worth, and the cruiser Hela, have sailed homewards. His Majesty's despatch boat Alacrity has arrived at Wu-sung. Admiral Sir E. Seymour will shortly pay a farewell visit ta the Yang-tsze Viceroys. The Chinese authorities having agreed to the main points of the indemnity question, and being anxious to resume authority at Pekin, the German forces have made definite arrangements for leaving. Count von Waldereee leaves at Pekin temporarily nine skeleton battalions of 300 men each. This will nearly equal the number of the British troops left. The French are withdrawing from Chi-Ii. The Japanese will reduce their force by 9000 and the British by 3000 men. The rest of the troops will remain until July or until the return of the Court is certain. The Chinese authorities have chosen a site and formed plans for a Chinese monument to Baron von Ketteler. All details will be submitted for approval to Germany. The Chinese inscriptions are being prepared by a former member of the Tsung-li- Yamen. MILITARY AFFRAY AT TIENTSIN. I A serious fracas occurred on the Taku-road on Sunday evening, when some men of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who were acting as police, in endeavouring to prevent some French soldiers from breaking into a house, were attacked with bayonets and bricks. In self-defence the British fired in the air, which brought a number of Germans to the assistance of the French, making altogether over 200 men. Finally, five of the Welsh Fusiliers opened fire, killing one of the French sol- diers, wounding three others, and also wounding five Germans. Four of the Fusiliers and one Japanese soldier were slightly wounded. The affray was brought to an end by the arrival of a German officer accompanied by a strong guard.
THE S1LCHESTER EXCAVATIONS.…
THE S1LCHESTER EXCAVATIONS. I An interesting exhibition of the objects found during the excavations last year on the site of the old Roman city Callera (the modern Silchester) was opened, on Monday, at the Rooms of the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, and will continue till June 15. The work of 1900 was begun early in May, and continued, with the usual break during harvest, till December 4. The area then excavated lies in the north-west corner, and consists of the four insula or squares, numbered from 23 to 26 inclusive on the plan issued by the committee, and extending up to the North gate and the wall. It is estimated that about three-fourths of the work has now been accom- plished, the only ground unexplored being the small portion lying East of the excavated squares, and between them and the old Manor House (now occupied as a farm). The extent of the work done in 1900 was shown by larger scale plans on the wall,on which were marked the houses and other buildings uncovered, and the wells and rubbish pits in which the finds were met with. In Square 23, a house of the courtyard type was uncovered, and a somewhat remarkable pavement was found, combining sectile and tessellated work. The pattern, as originally planned, was elaborate; but the materials gave out before the pavement was finished, and the workmen had to fill up space with such tiles as they had. In the same square to the Eastward was a larger house, and at the entrance to the court- yard a small square building, probably a temple, as similar structures, beyond doubt of a religious character, have been found at Herculaneum and Pompeii. This enclosed the walls of a much older building of the same character, which goes to con- firm the opinion that it was a temple. From the rubbish pits more than a hundred earthenware vessels were recovered, and as they were set out on the tables yesterday they made a finer show than the whole store of Roman pottery of many a local museum. Here, too, was a great hoard of smith's tools, hammers, tongs, and pincers, together with implements which the smith made for sale. Among these were plough coulters, locks, shoemakers' stands, anvils, nails, keys, and a small implement, the use of which waa for some time unknown. This was a long square- headed spike, with a ring on each side, at about the centre. It has turned out to be a small anvil, such as is used by mowers in the South of France for dressing scythes; a similar implement survives also in Spain, and numbers of them are made in Birming- ham for export to South America. In Square 24, two houses were uncovered, one of which was of large size and of exceptional interest, from the peculiar construction of the courtyard and the number of mosaic floors. One large piece of mosaic must have perished in late Roman times, for the middle has been cleared out, and the space filled up with coarse red tiles. The buildings in Square 25 were small, and apparently connected with dye works. Square 26 contained two houses—traces of a tuined house, and a solid circular platform, 27ft. in diameter. One of the mosaics recovered is exhibited, as is the pavement before referred to. The original groundwork was chalk, with a figure of a dolphin and a geometrical border in black and red tesseroe. When found, the ground- work had perished through frost and the infiltra- tion of water, but this has been filled up with plaster of Paris, and though the tessercB have lost their brilliancy, the result is eminently successful. Among the yields from the rubbish pits is a bronze vessel, beaten out of a single sheet of metal, a wooden ladder, pins, brooches, and fibulce, broken glass, a pocket knife, a steel-yard weight in the shape of a bust, and some pieces of marble and Egyptian porphyry, probably used for wall linings. Two small bronze figures represent respectively Venus and a fem,.Ie flute player. Of special interest are some brass clasps and rosettes, almost identical in composition with cheap French jewellery of the present day, and in pattern with some clasps for splint armour recently found in a Roman fort in Austria. The seeds sifted from the rubbish have been examined by Mr. Clement Reid, who has identi- fied those of the grape, sloe, damson, raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, apple, elder, fig, and nut. The seeds of the elder are so abundant in some of the pits that Mr. Reid thinks elderberries must have been eaten or used for wine in the old Roman city.
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LORD MILNER is of German descent on one side, and received his early training in a German school. His grandfather, who settled in Germany, married a German lady, and Karl Milner, their son, was the father of Lord Milner, and was born at Neuss in June, 1830. Lord Milner was born at Bonn on March 23, 1854, and received his early education in the schools of Wurtemberg. In 1869 he came to England and entered King's College, and a scholar- ship took him to Oxford in 1872.
EPITOME OF NEWS.
EPITOME OF NEWS. THE United States Government pension-roll con- taina the astounding number of 991,519 names. DOGS are t/IXED aocording to size in Hamburg. Two out of every three persons struck by lightning recover. In Mexico school children are allowed to smoke in school hours when their lessons are well prepared. JAPAN has sent a commercial representative to America to study the canned meat industry. IF a cyclist were to ride round the coast of Eng- land and Wales he would cover a distance of nearly 250J miles. A SMART brickmaker can make 4000 bricks a day. A 16-horse-power machine makes 30,000 in the same t.me. ONLY 370 of the islands in the Indian Ocean are inhabited. The total number is 16,300. ROUGHLY speaking, five tons of cotton rags are re- quired to make three tons of paper. OCT of an average annual loss to the world's shipping of 2172 vessels, 94 are completely missing and never heard of again. ALTHOUGH there are 214,000 acres of orchards is England, yet, we buy 130,000 tons of apples abroad in a year. A GIGANTIC block of iron ore, weighing 96 tons, has been transferred from Liverpool to Japan. THE average distance travelled by British locomotive engine-drivers is from 30,Coo to 50,100 miles everyd year. There are about 20,000 drivers in the Unite Kingdom. AN automobile sleigh is reported from Nuremburg, which is said to attain very high speed, and perfectly smooth travelling. EARL ROBERTS has intimated that he will not be able to take part in the proceedings connected with his accepting the freedom of the Merchant Taylors Company till after the war is over, ENGLAND imports vegetables from all parts of the world to the tune of £ 3,322,000 per annum, the foreign supply of potatoes representing annually something over;21,500,000 and onions being respon- sible for £ 780,000. THE Australians now serving, or who have served, in South Africa are urging their respective Govern- ments to appoint Major-General Sir Reginald Pole- Carew Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Federal Forces. A PASTOR in the Swiss Canton of Grisons has started services for cyclists at his church. The ex- periment has proved a great success, many of the congregation riding to church weekly from considei-v able distances. IT is announced that Pietro Massagni, the popular composer of the melodious and delightful" Cavalleria Ruiticana," has just signed a contract for an eight weeks' concert tour in America, for which he is to be remunerated at the princely rate of £ 2000 a week. THE cost of stamping out an epidemic is something serious for a great city. It was an- nounced in Glasgow Town Council that the expenditure connected with fighting the recent small- pox outbreak, which created so much alarm, was something like 140,000. A VERITABLE quick luncheon," it is said, is to be had at a restaurant in Paris, where a dinner of several courses composed of concentrated food in the form of tablets, can be consumed in a few minutes. The entire meal can be carried about in the vest-pocket. AMONG the Royal personages who are now possessors of motor-carriages are: King Edward VII., the Czar, the German Emperor, the King of the Bel- gians, Victor Emmanuel Ill., the Shah, and the Heir- Apparent of Belgium. MR. CURNICK, master of the West Surrey Stag Hunt, for several seasons, has, as the result of strong representations, withdrawn his resignation and consented to be master for another season. FEMALE barbers are numerous in Austrian cities They are compelled to undergo an examination before being permitted to go into business, and must,demon- strate their ability in shaving, hair-cutting and hair- curling. AT the beginning of June in each year about 300 organ-grinders leave Italy for London. They return to their native land in October, and live well for the next eight months, when they again start on their pilgrimage. THE Prince of Monaco, who is well known for hi oceanic researches, is to try and form :a permaneng International Maritime Bureau concerned with all maritime affairs of international importance such aa lighting, buoyage, fisheries, help for sailors, &c. THE Commanders of Yeomanry regiments. and Volunteer brigades have been ordered to send, by June 28, Reports to the War Office of the pro- gress made in their respective commands in respect to preparation for mobilisation. MANY countries have curious methods of making money to reduce taxation. In Hesse, Germany, a tax has been put upon bachelors, who now have to pay 25 per cent. more in taxes than married men. The result has been that many well-to-do bachelors have emigrated to Prussia. THE strength in officers and :men of the Royal Navy and Marine forces is, according to an official return just issued, 106,b07. This number falls short of that provided for in the present year's estimates by no fewer than 12,128, and is even less than last year's full strength by about 8500 men. A MARRIAGE has been arranged between George Fraser, eldest son of Major-General Sir Thomas Eraser, K.C.B., C.M.G., commanding the Thames District, and Dorothy youngest daughter of Colonel Almeric Spencer, late 2nd Essex Regiment (56th pompadours), and Mrs. Almeric Spencer, Red Bank, Market Drayton. THE largest lightning conductor in the world is in Bavaria. The top of it is some yards above the meteo- rological station on the Zugspitze, the highest point of land in the German Empire. It runs down the side of the mountain to a body of running water. The length of the rod is three and a half miles. POLITICAL and domestic embroilment has not pre* Tented the King and Queen of Servia from main- taining their interest in the fine arts. A monument to the memory of Milan has been commissioned, and Antonin Mercie, the celebrated sculptor, went to Belgrade to submit the rough model to their Majesties, who gave him a hearty welcome, and ex- pressed their admiration of the maquette. The monument will consist of a bronze equestrian statue of the late King in the uniform of a General, with two groups representing ancient and modern Servia on the pedestal. It will stand 16 metres high, and will take about three years to finish. When com- pleted it will be placed at the entrance to the terrace of the Kalimegdaws in the capital. M. Mercie is resting at Toulouse before starting his great work. AT the beginning of the war there was a general rush made to do something to help the various war funds, and efforts are again being made to help our brave soldiers. Mr. Walter Campbell, one of Lord Blythwood's brothers, has made, in conjunction with an Edinburgh publisher, a handsome present to the Scottish War Fund. It takes the form of a poem written by Mr. Campbell, and is published in an edition de luxe, with 12 illustrations by Prin- cess Louise Duchess of Argyll. Like all her Royal Highness's work these drawings are spirited and intelligent, and follow the text, which is an account of a curling game, with keen humour and apprecia- tion. SIX THOUSAND people sleep in the open air in London every night. WHAT is described as an "ancient draught- board has been discovered in Crete. It must, by all accounts, be a very fine piece of work, since it is composed of natural crystal, ivory, gold, and silver, but it is by no means unique. Chess, draughts, or the game from which both are derived, was known to nearly all the ancient civilisations, and Greek and Egyptian boards are by no means uncommon. If we are not mistaken, a board and a set of chessmen were discovered during the excavations on the site even of ancient Troy. THE Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, it is reported, are alarmed at the threatened passage of a tube near the base of the building. Before digging the foundations Wren said, I build for eternity." His men dug beneath graves of the Norman, Saxon, and Roman periods until a layer of sand and shells was found. Under this deposit was London clay, on which the foundations rest. A pit near the dome, which had been sunk for clay by potters in Roman times, had to be specially filled with durable mate- rial. THE Australians are, according to the mail reports, perturbed about a fast bowler to represent them this season. Jones, it appears, is laid aside by a strained lee, and it is said to be doubtful whether he will recover sufficiently to get up his speed again. Jones, it will be remembered, broke clean through the defence of the English team in the test match at Lord's in 1899 with his tremendous pace, and great hopes were placed in his ability this season. Still, be possesses suberb physique, and he may yet be seen trundling merrily.
SMACK OUT IN TWO.j
SMACK OUT IN TWO. While at Dover brilliant sunshine prevailed on land on Tuesday, a heavy fcg swept down suddenly on the Channel and rendered matters very dangerous for shipping. Arriving very fate, the Ostend mail steamer Marie Henriette reported having run down the smack Notre Dame Perpetuel Secours, of Gravelines. The mail boat was using her syrena at the time, but it was impossible to see any distance ahead. The boat had her nets down at the time she was struck by the steamer, and she was cut in two, foundering almost immediately. There was an exciting scene during the rescue of all the ten men on the smack, who have lost every- thing in the disaster. They were brought to Dover.
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TITK General Medical Council opened its session at its, offices in London on Tuesday. Sir W. Turner presided, and delivered an opening address, in which he discussed legislative and other questions relating to the medical profession. After disposing of various items of business, the Council adiourned. A GOOD story is told of Mr. Justice Mathew. In a case that was before him the counsel for the defen- d'tnt described the plaintiff as a money-lender." The plaintiff objected to the description, saying that be had many other interest besides this. For instance, ne said, he was devoted to birds. Pigeons ?" asked the mdge. A NEW garaemng cyclopedia bas just made its appearance which, in every respect, is the finest work of its kind ever issued. It is entitled "Cassell's Dictionary of Gardening," and is edited by Walter P. Wright, who is well known as the editor of the Gardener and a lecturer on horticultural matters. This work will be indispensable to all lovers of gar- dening, as concise information is given about every flower, fruit, vegetable, tree, shrub, and herb worth growing. The work is illustrated in a superb manner I with coloured plates and illustrations from photo- graphs direct from nature. It will be comidleted in about 20 monthly pnrts, price 7d. net.
THE KING AND THE ROYAL
THE KING AND THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION. The King recently sent for Lieut.-Colonel Holden, the secretary of the Royal United Service Institution, and desired him to inform the Council of his Majesty's intention to present the museum of that institution with some Nelson and other relics which have up to now been deposited in the Guard Chamber at Wind- sor. The King has always taken a great interest in the Royal United Service Institution, of which some weeks ago he became a patron; and aa 1'rince of Wales he frequently visited its museum. The most interesting of the relics is a portion ol the mast of the Victory, some feet in height, and having through it a hole made by a cannon bail at Trafalgar. This forms a pedestal which sup- ports a bust of Lord Nelson by Sir Francis Chantrey, executed in 1835. The other relicf comprise two smaller pieces of the mast of the Victory, a double shot fired from the Santissima Trinidad, two old cannon and an anchor fished out of the sea near Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire in 1875, two 841b. solid shot fired from the position of the Allied Army at the battle of Inkerman, a facsimile of a shot fired on board the Victory, two Russian muskets, two guns from Zululand, and the model of a shell. The announcement of the King's intention was made on the 4th inst. to the council, and the relics will, as soon as they are received from Windsor, be placed in position in the museum.
A TERRIBLE DEED.
A TERRIBLE DEED. Driven crazy by a lonely life in the woods, the Hon. Francis J. Lascelles, son of the fourth Earl of Harewood, and half-brother of the present earl, and cousin to Sir Frank Lascelles, British Ambassador in Germany, on Tuesday (says a correspondent in Van- couver, British Columbia) shot and instantly killed his servant. After the deed the madman barricaded himself, and threatened to slay anyone who ap- proached. A party of men crept up to him unawares, and he has now been placed in an asylum.
THE REVENUE.
THE REVENUE. The receipts on account of revenue from April 1, 1901, when there was a balance of £ 5,596,918, to June 1,1901, were E20,431,149, against E17,666,014, in the corresponding period of the preceding financial year, which began with a balance of £ 3,517,047. The net expenditure was E34,432,701, against £ 27,138,569 to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury balances on June 1, 1901, amounted to E3,885,247, and at the same date in 1900 to £ 3,429,492.
A CONSUL'S STORY. I
A CONSUL'S STORY. I The British Consul at Dunkirk recommends the introduction of the metric system of weights and measures, which would help British manufacturers to hold their own in the increasing competition for trade, "for buyers," he adds, "are much annoyed when they have to convert their orders from the metric system into our complicated weights and measures." He narrates the following incident: A short time ago a large order was sent to a British firm, but as metrical weights and measures were given, it was returned with the request that, to have it executed, the buyer must reduce them into English weights and measurements. Comment upon this is scarcely neces- sary.
ADVENTURE IN A WOOD.
ADVENTURE IN A WOOD. Before the Tunbridge-wells Borough Magistrates, on Tuesday, Neville William Jones was charged with robbing with violence a lady visitor named Maria Ellen Brymer, in the woods near High Rocks. Prosecutrix, whose forehead bore traces of a brutal assault, said she was picking flowers in the woods when the prisoner, who was wearing a false beard, suddenly appeared, and, pointing a revolver at her, demanded her money. She gave him all she had, and he then declared he must have her gold watch and chain. She appealed to be allowed to keep them, and offered her brooch instead, but prisoner, after taking the brooch, repeated his demand for the watch and chain. She demurred, whereupon he struck her a violent blow on the forehead with the pistol, knocked her down, and robbed her of the watch and chain. Afterwards he said he was sorry he had hit her, and warning her not to follow him, made off into the woods. Miss Brymer succeeded in reaching the High-road, and gave information, on which, in less than three hours, the prisoner was arrested. Jones admitted his guilt, and said he wanted money. It was a great temptation when he saw a young lady alone in the woods. He was committed for trial at the assizes.
A FORFEITED GIFT.
A FORFEITED GIFT. At a meeting of the Birmingham City Council on Tuesday, the Lord Mayor announced that the offer of a famous collection of pictures made two and a half years ago by Mr. J. T. Middlemore, M.P., had been withdrawn. The pictures included works by Sir E. Burne Jones and Holman Hunt, estimated to be worth at least £ 20,000. They were offered on condition that the present corporation art galleries were extended, but the period during which the offer hold good having expired, and nothing having been done in the way of extension, the offer had been with- drawn.
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MR: JOHN MORLEY, M.P., addressed a meeting of his constituents at Montrose on Tuesday night. He devoted his remarks chiefly to the war, complained of the loss of moral force it had entailed on this country, and condemned the policy of the Govern- ment as one of miscalculation upon miscalculation, of blunder upon blunder. THE London Diocesan Conference opened on I Tuesday. The Bishop of London presided, and de- livered an address, in which he set forth his views as to the organisation of the diocese. Resolutions were afterwards discussed and carried with reference to Church reform, tomperance legislation, and over- crowding. Two clever rogues went up to an apparently simple-looking countryman the other day, and said he was just the man they were looking for. They invited him to have a drink, which he readily ac- cepted. One of the rogues said he was looking out for a good, honest fellow as head gardener for his extensive gardens; but, to prove his honesty, he would set him a task. The two handed him their watches, chains, and purses, and told him they would go out into the back garden, and, if he were honest, he would be there when they came back, and they would give him the situation. They departed for a few minutes, but, to their astonishment, when they came back their bird had flown I He was a "confidence man himself.
ART AND LITERATURE.I \I{'T…
ART AND LITERATURE. I \I{'T AND ITERATURE. I A NOTEWORTHY achievement in chryselephantine sculpture has just been completed by M. d'Epinay, who has taken as his subject Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans is represented standingin a medita- tive pose, and the artist has made skilful use of the marble, ivory, and silver, in the composition of the work. Chryselephantine statues were much esteemed in Greece, but the only comparatively modern examples (says the Figaro) are the Athena of the Parthenon by Simart (exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 1855), and a Pensee Moderne from the chisel of Denys Puerch, now being executed to the order of a rich amateur. Two of the greatest literary productions of the Chinese are a dictionary of 5020 volumes and an encyclopaedia of 22,937 volumes. HERE (says the Bun) is a Royal Academy romance That well-known painter, Mr. G. A. Storey, A.R.A., once received a letter from a gentleman relating how one of his pictures, Mistress Dorothy," exhibited in the Academy, had been instrumental in procuring him a wife. While on a visit to Burlington House, in company with a lady, the artist's correspondent having remarked upon the beauty of Dorothy," his companion assured him that she had a friend who was her very image, and offered an introduction. This, which was eagerly accepted, resulted in a happy marriage. A GREAT many visitors to the sculpture galleries at Burlington House, in London, have been puzzled by the map sketched on the base of the plaster bust of Herbert Ward, Esq." (1727), one of the best of several admirable portrait studies contributed to the exhibition by Mr. W. Goscombe John, A.R.A. It is not easy to identify the locality suggested, for the sculptor has omitted the lettering on his plaster chart, but the district represented is the country through which the Congo flows-a part of Africa with which the original of Mr. Goscombe John's bust has had a peculiarly intimate acquaintance. Mr. Herbert Ward is the well-known African travaller who took part in the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition under Sir H. M. Stanley, and who, in My Life with Stanley's Rearguard," has graphically described the tragedy of the Yambuya Camp and the death of Major Barttelot. THE Customs Tariff in the United States has in* directly done a good turn to the South Kensington Museum. Mr. Pierpont Morgan has just bought in Paris the art collection of M. Mannheim, and he intends, it is said, to lend it to the museum until he can convey it to America without having to pay too heavily for his discrimination as a collector. As his purchase includes antiques, works of the Renais- sance, Italian majolica, Limoges enamels, Sevres porcelain, and other notable examples of craftsman- ship, it will be very welcome at South Kensington. THE reported intention of the German Emperor to create at Berlin a museum of casts from master- pieces of modern sculpture can (the Globe says) be sincerely commended both on artistic and historical grounds. Such a collection might easily be made extremely interesting, and if representative works by sculptors of all nations were included in it, the con- trasts of methods and styles which it would afford would be of very real educational value. It would be an excellent thing if we had in this country a gathering of casts from the best works done by our native sculptors during the last half century. No more convincing proof of the progress which the art in many of its phases has made among us of late could be imagined, and nothing which would be more helpful to coming generations of art students. It might be a little difficult, however, to represent adequately one of the most interesting of recent developments in sculpture, and to show in a museum of casts the beauty of the decorative work which many of our cleverest artists are now producing. The alliance between sculpture and craftsmanship which marks the modern revival, the combination of many materials in the carrying out of a modelled design, could not be well expressed in plaster, and therefore some of the most memorable achievements of the new school of sculptors would have to be omitted from the collection. In these circumstances it might, perhaps, lose a measure of its significance as an assertion of the variety of present-day effort. MR. LANE is publishing a volume of Poems by Lady Margaret Sackville, whose work has hitherto only circulated privately. Despite her youth, Lady Margaret has been rather a prolific writer, producing little poetical plays which have been enthusiastically welcomed in the country houses where they have been staged. The volume, just about to appear, is, however, mainly lyrical, although two dramatic pieces in blank verse are included. Lady Margaret's poetical ancestry is remarkable, embracing as it does the first Earl of Dorset, Thomas Sackville, who was part author of the first English tragedy in blank verse, and the sixth Earl of Dorset, Charles Sack- ville, whose poem, To all you ladies now on land,' is to be found in every English anthology. THEODOR ROCIIOLL, the celebrated genre and battle painter, who, by command of the Emperor William, accompanied Count von Waldersee to China, writes to a friend that he has secured admirable sketches of both peaceful and war scenes in the Far East. He now proposes to return to the Fatherland, where, of course, his first task will be to display the contents of his sketch-books to his Imperial patron and to confer with his Majesty concerning their execution. The sketches of the soldiers bringing into Cha-tau the body of the unfortunate Count York von Warten- burg and of the European detachments with the entire International corps of officers awaiting the arrival of the funeral procession at the western gate of the city will provide the material for one of Rocholl's chief paintings. MR. G. J. FRAMPTON, who is certainly to be placed in the first rank of British decorative sculptors, is engaged upon a life-size bust of Lady Granby. The face will be carved in ivory, as it was in the Lamia" bust which he exhibited in the Academy last year. This material lends itself so well to deli- cate handling, and is so expressive when treated by an artist who understands its particular qualities, that the choice of it for a portrait bust is entirely to be commended. From Mr. Frampton a work of more than ordinary beauty may be expected. THE Poet Laureate is now 66. We do not think (says the St. James's Gazette) of Mr. Austin as one of the pre-Victorians. But he was born in 1835, and it will soon be 50 years since, as a youth of 19, he wrote and published his first book, Randolph A tale of Polish Grief." He has been many things in his time. For three years he regularly attended the Assizes at York, where he wore his barrister's wig but never practised and he had the exciting experi- ence 30 years ago of representing a daily paper in Paris during the siege. It is not surprising that he should have interested himself in the law and the Press as well as in literature, for Mr. Austin believes that the true poet is one of the most versatile of men. Has he not said that no man could ever hope to be a great poet who could not equally have been a successful administrator, general, or statesman, or an impressive archbishop? The phrase, if it were true, would exclude many of our immortal poets from greatness, and Mr. Austin, perhaps, meant it to do so. He would no doubt exclude his predecessor. Long, long ago, when Mr. Austin was writing for the papers and had no dream of ever being Poet Laureate, he wrote of Tennyson in a book which he called "The Poetry of the Period," and two lines will be enough to show the opinion he had of Lord Tennyson's work at that time. In Memoriam, he wrote, will assuredly be handed over to the dnstas soon as a generation arises which has come to its senses How the first Poet Laureate came to be appointed is not (says the St. James's Gazette) quite clear. The origin of the office is lost in antiquity. From time immemorial our kings appear to have included a "Kingj's Poet" in their household appointments, much in the same way as they appointed a King's Jester," and it is likely that the Poet Laureateship is a development of that practice. The poet was sometimes known by the name of the King's Versi- ficallor," but a writer on the subject tells us that the laurel was oftener placed on the skull of a pedant than wreathed on the head of a man of genius. The first Laureate appointed by letters patent was Ben Jonson, but Edmund Spenser is generally regarded as the first of all the King's Poets." Henry III. had a Versificator Regis to whom he paid 100s. a year, and Chaucer appears to have assumed the title, in return for an annual allowance of wine, which was granted until about 100 years ago, when it was commuted for £ 27.
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I AM fortunate in one thing," said Mr. Meekton My wife is one of the most economical women in the world." That is indeed fortunate." Yes. I don't like to brag, but she is a marvel. She doesn't let me spend a penny of my money foolishly."