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WHAT BRITAIN OWES TO SPORT.
MORE PLAYING FIELDS NEEDED TO SAVE OUR NATIONAL GAMES FOR THE AMATEUR.
confined to the fow.
BY DEAN INGE]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,
LORDS. COMMONS.
WHERE THE UPPER HOUSE
SCORES...
(UY THE DAILY MAIL" PARLIAMENT- ARY CORRESPONDENT.]
Does the House of Lords really need reforming Another debate on this perennial topic took place
WHAT FAST BOWLERS WAŃT.
WOULD TOM RICHARDSON BE ONLY AVERAGE " TO-DAY!
[DY HAROLD LARWOOD (ENGLAND AND NOTTI).]
JULY 1st, 1927.
SEARCH FOR KNOW- MUNIFICENT BEQUEST OF PREVENTION OF
LEDGE.
WHAT AMERICAN EXPLOR- ́ERS DİD LAST YEAR.
MANY IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES.
LADY HENRY.
£300,000 ANGLO-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIPS FUND.
HER EARNEST HOPE,
The into Lady (Charles) Henry, an announcement of whose death appeared recently in our columns, left a remarkable will.
She has done this in the earnest hope and desire of cementing this bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States of America."
If there is any truth in the sny-1 was a boy. The scorebook of the ing quoted perhaps too often by village where I was born records enthusiasts for our Public School how on the occasion of my christen- education, that the battle of Water-ing the rustics were reinforced by'
When I left my little village of log was won in the playing fields my father and four of my uncles, in the Upper House soon after Nuncar Gate, where I saw of Eton, it is very undesirable that all good cricketers and two of thou Whitsun, when the Duke of Marl-coal than cricket, to join the Notts more so valuable a privilego should be Oxford Blues, who went out to deborough-a very rare speaker in ground staff, I never dreamed that
molish a neighbouring parish in
of A If space could be found, there my honour. But, it is the beauty Parliament-gave notice
I should have the pleasure of play ought to be grass field attached of village wickets that they can
motion declaring that, in viewing for England only four years to overy school. At present, we are furnish fatal surprises even to a told, faur million elementary Hobbs. On this occasion the pride of the failure of any scheme of later. school children have no facilities of Oxford suffered a downfall, and House of Lords reform to arouse started, and I still am.
I was terribly in earnest when I whatever for playing team-games the parish of Sessay won a glorious interest, this House regards fur-miss a thing, even when any, own I hardly ander proper conditions. School victory. The village cricket fold
side are batting. playgrounds are open only during was then a social centre for the ther discussion of the question za school hours, and most of them ars, parish; it brought squire, parson, inopportune and unprofitable."
There are in
This challenge gives rise to Rome very small.
fnemer and Inbourer together; and towus paths and commons where from time to time in old printeresting nmparisons between the two Houses of Parliament, public play is allowed, but they turo 1 Punch narrates) are not inviting. The pitches are pride of the village was aclected especially the methods of debate
into the scholarship fund. Twenty-two against and the reactions to public opinion. sally worn bare of grass, and to play for a full of holes. It is pathetic to see travelling Eleven of profes-u the light of recent experience it
chias trying to play football and signals, and returned in a batter- cricket in the streets, in dangered condition, after standing up to of being run in by a policeman, "a haver from Jackson." for street games are illegal.
We are often told that the crowds who go to sro football and ericket are composed of men who never
many
The early summer is a good ana son to launch an appeal for public
Playing Ficide, nad dure can be
play games themselves and do not no doubt that such an appeat would want to play them. What interests be very influentially backed and them in foothull, we are told, is generously supported. Private the belting. This is hardly fair. munificance has already provided There is next to no betting on eric a field for the purpose-net- Read ket, though a hundred years ago ing and the Lord Lieutenant of there was a great deal; and it is Cornwall has presented a recrea-Frobable that in every crowd there Other are hundreds, or thousands, who tion ground to Redruth. benefactions of the same kind have would much rather be playing been recently reported. But land themselves than looking on. They in the immediate neighbourhood of have never had a chance of learn large towns is so valuable that inling to play, and many people will would be unfair to rely only on think that a chance ought to be the generosity of private land-given them. Lowners or companies.
would not be unfair to say that the Lords are interested in the humanities while the Cominons are involving themselves in legalities The Peers have talked about economy, agriculture, cinomas, bet- ting, money-lending, share ewind. lera, troms in the New Forest, and a number of other live" subjects, while the Commons have been pur- suing a tortuous way through the legal mazes of the Trade Disputes Bill.
-M.P.'s, of course, may argue that this Bill is one that really touches the humanities most closely, but the truth is that, owing to the methods of the Opposition, discus- sion in the House of Commons is less concerned with the welfare of the nation than with the advan- And that is tages of a party where the real difference between the debates in the two Houses is apparent to-day. Peers are per- sons; M.P.s are politicians,
In the House of Commons the defeat of the Government would probably mean the resignation of the Government. In the House of Lords there is a freedom from con- sequences that enables men to say exactly what they think.
Better All Round,
Love Of Games Ingrained. Home Of Team Giants,
The love of games is ingrained England has for centuries been in human nature, at any rate in the chief hoe of team-games. this country. Psychologista tell us Some of them have been forgotten; that to thwart an instinct. of this others have been developed from kind is always injurious. It is children's
games into scientific generally supposed that what is sports, as stool-ball was the precur best in the character of an English for of cricket, and rounders of gentleman-his love of fair play, baseball. The latter gaane has his adaptability to team-work, and never taken root in England, nor this courtesy to opponents, owes a the former in America, though I great deal to the games which he sew a game of oricket going on at hus had to play at his public Philadelphia, perhaps the only school. There is no reason to think place in the United States where that the working-class boy would a sight could be seen. Base any slower to learn these lessons, Buch ball, I must confess, struck me usif he had the same opportunities, a second-rate game played magni- The testimony of University anen ficently but a good American having worked in East End Settle
ments is all the other way.
Those who have studied the sub- jeat think that there sught to be a provision of about five acres for every thousand of the population,"
The House of Lords is hire dig. four acres for team games, and one nified than the House of Commons. for a children's playground. This No one is over shouted down in the sounds like a large demand for our House of Lords. There are 立ウ Mr. Jack Jones is not Bсenes." the great centres of population; but
the increasing Facilities for rapid barons No one is trying to take Peer. There are no Clydeside transportation make the problem political advantage of an uncon-
Have helove ine
a book on The seious slip of the tongue.----- Play Movement "- in America,
would admit this.
The most serious of team-ganios in the Middle Ages was archery, for which the young people of the parish used to turn out, undis couraged by the Church, on Bun- days. My readers may have potic ed, on the outside walls of some old churches, the grooves in stone, which show where the stout yeomen of the fifteenth century
used to sharpen their arrows.
The origin of cricket, ure rather obscure. Chapinan, Those tranela tion of the Odyssey appeared in
seen it.
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easier.
Frofessionalism.
The House of Lords is more de- mocratic than the House of Com- ons in matters of procedure. In the latter, when several members rise at the same time to speak, the Speaker decides; in the House of Lords, if rival contestants for oratorical honours do not give was the choice of the next speaker is loft to a vote of the House.
When a lid of only is comes in contact with some of the most famous cricketers of his day it is just as well for him to know nothing, keep his eyes wide open, hear all he can, forget what is of no use, and hang on to anything that might prove helpful; also to do what he is told, if he can do it. hope I have always remembered this.
The whole of her residuary ostate, which at a venture may be estimat ed at not less than £300,000, goes
DIPHTHERIA.
THE SCHICK TEST,
DR. GRAHAM FORBES'S REPORT.
A report on "The Prevention of Diphtheria," by Dr. J. Graham Forbes, has been issued by the British Medical Research Council 1 was originally prepared from
Council, and is information of the Public Health Committee of the London County survey of the methods for the pro- comprehensivo vention of diphtheria which bavo been practised on a large senle dur- ing the past ten years in America, and to a much less, though growing, extent in Great Britain.
The anti-toxin treatment of the discuse, it is stated, brought down the ease mortality quickly from 30 per cent. to below 10 per cent, but since 1904 the decline, though continued had only been from about 9 to about 7 per cent. Dur- ing the whole time of the use of This is the biggest and most this life-saving method the attack imaginative educational bequest rate and the virulence of the disease be made on this side of the had been inermasing. In London, Atlantic since the publication of, for instance, between 2904 and 1924 Cecil Rhodes's will.
the attack rate per 1,000 persons livi living rose from 11.3 to 10.1, and the deaths from 0.00 to 1.33.
the applying
The continual striving after #
Herself an American by birth, and
is well illustrated in the report the bulk of her fortune to founding fuller knowledge of the universe for long a leader of Anglo-American society in London, she has devoted of the Smithsonian Institution, scholarships at Oxford and Cam Washington, expeditions in 1928.
bridge to be held by American students of either sex, and at Har There were no fewer than thirty-vard and Enle to be held by British five field expeditions, and the obstudents of either sex.. jeots of these ranged from the cap ture of live wild game and the unearthing of buried villages, to the collection of fossil foot-prints, fosil elephants, and the gathering of ferns in West Indian mountains
"Field work is essential to the advance of nearly all branches of science," says the exploration pain- phlet, particularly those which the Smithsonian Institution is at This is what I learned from present engaged in promoting,
It differs, however, from the The Post. namely, geology, biology, anthropo- Rhodes Trust in several respects. 620,000 children of the London you. In early days, 25 years
a smaller schools the Schick test for diph- sale. The Rhodes Trust has an go, Strudwick had to stand-up to logy and astrophysics. The instita For one thing it is on the great Tom Richardson, who tion, therefore, embraces every pannual incone, in round figures, of by active immunization would be. therin and prevention of the disease must have been a terrar.
portunity of putting expeditions £100,000 a year. The Charles (inclusive of extra medical service, in the field to obtain desired in and Julia. Henry Fund" on the whicle might amount to £95,000) above estimate will produce about £100,000. On another basis the formation or collections, either
£15,000 annually.
cost is estimated at £70,000. Rhodes's under its own auspices, through
During 1921 the cost of diphtheria financial assistanco from its
alone to London ratepayers was friends, or in co-operation with
the cost of every case of diphtheria estimated at about £800,000; and other agencies which will benefit
at about £30, a sum which would- cover the cost of protecting 200 equally from the work."
children.
Strudwick, and it may surprise
Struddy" told me that if Tom Richardson were bowling to-day he would not be any more successful- than the average fast bowler.
Surprised.
I looked rather surprised at that, for 1 regarded it as encouraging
newa.
"It's the wickets of to-day that best fast bowlers," Strudwick said. "When I used to take Tom, or any other speed merchant, I used to take them waist high. The ball would rise and come up well ever the stumps.
Now I am e
crouching down for them, taking ball down by my ankles. I can't come up closer in case one is snick ed, but I do know that we don't get a fiery pitch nowadays. Tha
Inclusion or Women.
scheme, scholarship while primarily Anglo-American, elusively on Oxford. Lady Henry's was also Imperial, and centred ex- is confined to Britain and America, and arranges for scholarships to be held at the two leading British and the two leading American univer- aities.
London, closely followed by Porta- mouth and Bristol, had shown dur- Rhodes restricted his great foun- ing the past 15 years a uniformly dation to men only. Lady Henry higher diphtheria rate than any of includes women, and permits both the other most populous towns, and undergraduate and postgraduate | Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Glae- courses to be taken.
The Charles and Julia Henry Fund will be administered by twelve trustees, three each being appointed by the four universities
Observatory Among Hottentots. The year's expeditions were lead ed by
a 30,000-mile journey to Algeria, Baluchistan, and South west Africa, undertaken by Dr. C. G. Abbot, acting accretary of the Smithsonian, under the aus pices of the National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian, to select a site for a solar observatory The widest discretionary powers in the Eastern Hemisphere. Ho are given them, and there is not picked Mount Brukkar, amongkely to be any need, as there was in the case of the Rhodes Trust, for South-west an Act of Parliament altering the Africa, and the observatory al terms of the bequest. ready is functioning there. fast
what you fast bowlers want!"
No fast bowler is going to have a good average unless he is helped in the field particularly in the slips. Most of the catches that are missed are off the fast bowlers. The slow ones get their victims in the long field or from ishits to mid-off but rarely does the bowler get a man caught anywhere near the pavilion,
It is snicks like greased lightning that have got to be held, and when they are missed we mustn't throw Some up our hands in despair. of them want holding Fast how lers have got to inske allowances Misleading Averages.
1 don't take much notice of averages either. I know many n
nibble at the tail-end, but I know of one fast bowler who is always at the best of the batsmen, and is well worked out by the time he has broken the back of the other side. Three wickets out of the first four is much better work than fire out of the last six. It is the class of batsman that counts.
I am not denying that I have a
the Hottentots
of
concerned.
or en.
gow, though to a less degree, were yet well above the average rates for England and Wales over the same period. On the other hand, in Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Brad- ford, Nowcastle, and Cardiff the diphtheria rates were almost ozi- formly below the average rates for the whole of England and Wales.
A. Notable Advance.” After analysing the results of preventive work in Great Britain and also for many countries abroad, Dr. Forbes concludes:-
So long as they use the fund for the purpose or purposes · con- The purpose of the field work of ducive to the promotion the Smithsonian Astrophysion! Obcouragement of the education in
"It may be stated that the America of British subjects or in evidence which bus now steadily servatory, according to Dr. Abbot, England of American subjects," accumulated in America, and is has been aimed for the last sight they are left with a virtually free forthcoming on a more limited
years to solve the question of whe-hand. ther the sun varies, and if so, what effects on our weather the changes
of anlar heat produco.
Another Tanganyika
section of Africa
territory-provided Chrysler live game collecting ex pedition under Dr. William M. The expedition brought home about 1,700 live animals for the National Zoological Park, in cluding a pair of giraffes, and quantities of birds, small mammala and reptiles.
Maan.
scale, from the work done in Great This is not the first time that Britain, together with the world- facilities for taking University wide use of these, measures, appeara courses in the United States have the experienced opinions of all who sufficiently convincing to justify been provided for British students, though they have never before been have devoted much stady to the furnished on so: liberal a scale.
problem, and hold that the Schick The Commonwealth Fund Fellow test and immanization, constitute Fellowship, the Choate Memorial
the sphere of preventive medicine. Fellowship, the Clarence Graff
Furthermore, there is now very Fellowship, the Henry P. Davison little doubt that their systematic Scholarships; the Riggs Founda adoption would result in a great tion, and the English-Speaking yearly saving of child life, notably Union's Scholarships are all em in London, where, though diph- bediments, in a smaller way, of theria has been more generally pre- the idea which inspired Lady valent and present a more pressing and difficult problem than in the provinces, no co-ordinated effort has been made to introduce im- munization, Reduction in the in- cidence of the disease would also lighten very materially the burden on the ratepayers of the present heavy expenditure incurred in the existing system of notification, re hospital treatment, and in the
Henry.
For London Charities.
Apart from this great scheme, Lady Benry's will is interesting
In Grand Canyon, The wing impression of a large insect like a dragon-fly, which lived an unknown number of million Years ago, was one of the prizes for its many personal bequests. brought back by Charles Gilmore
The executors of her will are Mr. with his collection of fossil foot- Algernon Lionel Collins (the prints from the Grand Canyon, family solicitor) and the Public
dr. Gilmore has gathered foot Trustee, and the principal per moval, disinfection, isolation, and prints from three distinct geologi-sonal legacies of money, jewellery
other members of the family.
The chief beneficiary is her sister, Mrs. Martin. Vogel, to whom is left lange sum of money as well as quantity of jewellery, including a famous rope of pearls and other
The House of Lords is more busi. bowler who does the donkey work the scene for the Smithsonian ship, the Rose Sidgwick Memorial one of the most notable advances in which gives a systematie descrip nuss-like than the House of Com- for his team, gets nearly all the 1014, make Nausicaa and her tion of all that has been done in mone Recently Peers disposed in best wickets, and seldom has a maidens play cricket or stoolball, the United States to provide re bwo and a half hours of technical chance at the rabbits. instead of catchball, as Homer us creation grounds for the young which will certainly occupy a Com- armendments to the Companies Bill doubt intended. The
Anerien seems to have people. after receiving a "liking-stroke "taken the lead in providing sand- mous Committee for twice as, many or trial ball, hits a boundary, and gardens for children to play about days. sends the ball wide of the other in; and it is developing a system
The House of Lords. is more maids," "amidst the whirlpools," of gymnasia, dance-halls, and the creative than the House of Com Chamberlayne, in his Angliae like, in every large town. Theac mous. Many of the most useful Notitia (1080), describes the Engare good, it no substitute for Bills of modern times, such as the lishman's love of games as he has exercise in the open air, with the Money-lenders Bill, have originas
useful discipline of team-play.
ed in the enthusiasms of individua: Peers. After a 12-Hour Day.
Parkin is supposed to have said: The House of Lords contains "Now you go on and bowl them The domination of the Puritans There is an increasing tendency more pre-eminent experts than the in, and I'll come on and bowl them does not seem to have checker the to drop a game rather than play House of Commona. Morals out." aational prosperity to join in it badly, Lawn-tennis has become There Аге the Bishops. Law? team-garnes very much. "The so scientific that the poor pat-bal. There are the Law Lords. Busi-
Well, it isn't like that really. endure long and hard fabour, in- reduce his weight on the vicarage Lord St. Davids, Lord Swaythling, minds to play themselves in. These up against men who make up their somuch that after twelve hours' lawn, too often gives up playing Lord. Ashfield, and a score more hard work they will go in the even altogether This is a great mis occur to mind.
are the wickets that are hardest to Racing? The ing to football, stockhall (what take we must not allow profes- stewards of the Jockey Club. get. If your opening pair can get was this game), cricket, prison sionalism to spoil the objects for Medicine Lord Dawson of Penn. ed.
theas at a small cost they are satis base, wrestling, cudgel playing, or which games exist. There are some Cricket? Lord Harris. And so on. some suchliko vehement exercise for first-class cricketers who much pre- There is not a department of hu-
Mexican silver and land mines personal effects. If I were bowling against a side their recreation."
Her two other sistors, Miss Irene there was usually
in those days fer dub cricket, or even village man life that is not represented by that had Hobbs and Sutcliffe in it, which have been in almost constant
field within cricket, to the severe performances an acknowledged authority in the and got their wickets, any bowler operation since the Spanish con Lewisohn, and Mrs. Alice Crowley, reach of the labourer, who was not on billiard table wickets which are House of Lords.
could have the rest. That is why quest of the sixteenth century pro- likewise benefit aubstantially, and
vided study and collecting ground number of sisters-in-law, nephews, averages don't matter
for Dr. F. W. Foshag, under the and nieces are also remembered, a auspices of the Smithsonian and beautiful tapestry going to Mrs the Harvard Mineralogical Frederick Lewisohn, and Mrs. Edna Museum. Rich as Mexico is in Lewisohn receiving gifts of money.
and mineralogy.
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common people, he euy's," will ler, who used to enjoy himself and ness? The names of Lord Kylsant. The opening bowlers are always cal horizons, one above the other and furniture go to her sisters and general preventive measures against
seats, of course, different animals, in the canyon. Each set repre- distant in time from one another by the ages that it took to deposit four or five hundred feet of sedi- mentary rocks.
too tired, even after a twelve reported in the newspapers. One Not infrequently lately more bowlers' hours working day, to enjoy his famous cricketer of my own genera M.P.s have been zeen listening to much to people who know, evening game. Football must have tion tolls me that he has given up debates in the House of Lords than been played in the summer in the watching first-class cricket, seventeenth century, Fifty years enuse it is no longer played in tend to prove the epigram of a SALVATIONIST WHO PRO-ores, little is known of its geology and jewel earlier, cricket was played with an the right spirit. instrument resembling
be in the House of Commons. Facts
Peer who said lately that what the
a crobier The games played on the now Lords think to-day the Commons or bishop's staffo." Pope, who was public Playing Fields, if they ever say to-morrow and preach on pub- not an athlete, contemptuously income into existence, will be jollylic platforms the day after. vites us to see the senator at games, played for exercise and re- criokot urge the ball; so oven freshment. The more we have of then we had our judges and Mem- auch play, the less danger there bera of Parliament who were glad will be of our great national games enough to take part in a village being professionalised and spoiled. match.
The public, I think, is likely to I have lived so long in London ba appealed to before long. I hope - that I do not know whether coun- the response will be generous and try cricket flourishes as it did when | adequate.
THE "OULD COUNTRY,”
SHOWER OF EGGS AT ELECTION MEETING,
THE OLDEST TREES.
STANDING BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
The oldest treo-probably the oldest living thing in the world is the huge cypress tree in Chapul tepec, Mexico, which has a trunk 118 feet in circumference and is believed to be more than 6,000 years
POSED TO MARCHIONESS.
SURPRISE FOR MAJOR IN SEARCH OF HELPMEET.
In his investigations Dr. Foshag visited the Maravilla Mine, where crystals of pure gypsum six feet in length rise from the floors of
two chives.
St. Thomas's Hospital receives £10,000 under the will, the Mid- dlesex Hospital £500, the Univer sity College Hospital £2,000, Mrs. Stanley Baldwin (in aid of the fund now being collected for the Lieut. Henry C. Kellers reports erection of a club room by the that the whirr of the automobile Y.W.C.A.) £1,000, and shout How a Salvation Army major has driven the jungle beasts of £5,000 is distributed among various proposed" to the Marchioness of Sumatra into the interior of the other charities. Aberdeen was described by the jungles, so that collecting is not
Marchioness. D
Army social meeting in Aberdeen, lers, Medical Corps, USN was She was speaking at a Salvation what it used to be. Lieut. Kel- and said that her audience would
assigned to represent the Smith be amazed when she told them that
sonian Institution with the Naval she once had an opportunity-if she had been free of marrying a major in the Salvation Army.
sada bag of flour fell on the shoulder of the Rev... K. Hanna. While Mr. Waller was trying to make himself heard the doors of old writes a correspondent to the She and Lord Aberdeen were ou the hall were burst open and # Daily Mail.
ing
and
Observatory eclipse expedition to Sumatra.
£3,000 For Butler. Among gifts and souvenirs to old personal friends or their children are:--
£1,000 to Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P
the spread of infection in the homes, schools, and elsewhere.
"The problem is one calling for the closest authorities concerned, whether pub- co-operation of all lic health, administrative, or educa- tional and particularly in Lon- don, whore, for diphtheria, the
Burpasses, and attack-rate mortality rate nearly so, that of any other city in Great Britain, Europe, if not the world."-Times. and almost every other capital in.
.the
DEAD SENTRY'S VIGIL.
ITALIAN SOLDIER FOUND STILL AT HIS POST-AFTER ELEVEN YEARS.
Whilst climbing the Cima Undici, one of the highest peaks on the Austrian frontier, a party of mountaineers found an Italian soldier in steel helmet and with bayonet fixed to his rifle, apparent ly on sentry duty, says a Central News Rome message,
On approaching the figure they found that the man had been shot £9,000 to Sir Thomas and Lady through the head, but the extreme Carey-Evans
cold had preserved the body, which, £3,000 to her butler, Habbitts... ⠀ remained standing against the
hind £1,000 to Captain Paul Bennett, rock as at the moment when the V.C., the barrister, and a friend of luckicus soldier had been killed. her son who was killed in the war. Inquiries showed that the sentry,
An antique secretaire to Mrs. was reported missing in 1916. Philip Snowden,
In visit to what might be call ed the last of the whaling stations, a visit to New Zealand, and one situated at Trinidad, Humboldt | gang of students rushed in carry- Some of the giant redwoods of Sunday, during a prowl around," County, Calif., adds the New
York Professor N. E. Thrift, one California are more than 200 feet she arrived at a Salvation Army
Herald Tribune" in a re- There were wild scenes in Trinity of the sitting members. on, their in height, and at least: 2,500 years barracks and get auto conversation view of the Smithsonian achieve. College, Dublin, during a meeting shoulders, Professor Thrift, obold. A giant kauri discovered in with a major.
menta, A. Brazied Howell learned in support of Mr. Deltor Waller, viously greatly embarrassed by this the Northern forest of Now Zon "Ie inquired into my antece the methods used for catching the A watch to Lord Dawson of Penn," who contested the University con rather crudo exibition of loyalty, land, which is 09 fest in girth and dents," said Lady Aberdeen, speedier, Joss valuable whales, and £1,000 to Dr. Thomas Hat- stituency as an independent candi- appealed to the students to give contains 106,000 feet of timber, is said he had grout difficulty in find which are all that remain in the tigan, the family physician. date at the Free State general elec. Mr. Waller a hearing, but was reckoned to have lived for 20 oen ing a partner to help him in his back whales can attain a speed of Colonel Laurie, D.S.O., the Chief industry. These finback and hump- A writing table and chair to ruled out of order by the chair-turica. As soon, the meeting started, mas.
The holy Bo tree at Anurad had difficulty in assuring him thirty miles an hour, so that it of the Mounted Branch, Hootland orowd of studen137ớt the back of Finally Sir Robert Tate, junior hapura, in Ceylon, was planted 288 that I was not qualified for the posi. requires careful manaurring and Yard. the hall bogan to throw eggs, Dean of the University stored a years before Christ, and there are tion, having a husband and a family. superior harpoons to capture one. A number of monetary bequests onions and other missiles. The semblance of order, and Mr. Wal- English oaks, such as the Cow- I offered to introduce him to my Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, too, complet to her servanta at Carlton Gardens chairman, the Rev. Robin Gwynn, lor finished his speech smid "con- thorpe, which must have been big husband, and be quickly disap-ed the first extensive anthropologi and Parkwood. was struck by an egg on the chest, stant interruptions.
tros when the Conqueror landed peared.",
cal survey of Alaska.
(Continued at foot of next "column),
tion.
army work.
Her Personal Papera." very considerable correspondence Lady Henry, who carried on a with people of note, left all her personal papers, as well as her books and some tapestries, to her brother-in-law, Mr. Martin Vogel, formerly Assistant Treasurer of the United Staten.