DEATH OF MR. ALFRED AUSTIN.
Memoir of the late Post Laureate.
The news that Mr Alfred Aus
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As to the
ed the appointment." Alfred Austin was born on May manner in which Alfred Austin 30, 1835, at Headingley, near filled the position, it may be said Tode. His father, a woolstapler that he did the official work quito by trade, was a Roman Catholio, well and that the Queen was ns was his mother, a sister of pleased with his various odes and Jotaph Leake, the woll-known addresses. He published several railway engineer, afterwards M.P. volumes in verse and prose after for Honiton. Young Austin was 1900, and now and then, as on educated in the same faith, first the contenary of Trafalgar, we at Stonyhurst, and then at printed spirited and patriotic Oscott, near Birmingham, the verses from his hand. college which then and for long afterwards was stongly af frated by Newman's influence. In due time Austin hecame n student of the London Univer- sity, Oxford and Cambridge being at that time pratically closed to Roman Catholics; and after tak- ing bia degree in 1854, he entered at the Inner Temple. Three years
MIDNIGHT SCENE.
Strange Story of London Life.
Percy Simmons, 21, describe
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BOXING.
The Wells-Carpentier Fight.
The following, from the Times" deals with the fight between Carpentier and Bombar: dier Wella at Ühout.
Ghent, Jude 1. In spile of the heavy rain, which had been falling all day, fully 5,000 people assembled this afternoon in the Floral Hall at the Ghent Exhibition to witness the 20 round contest between" Georges Carpentier (France)
and Bombardier Wells (Eng-
land)
for
the
Heavy- liter he was called to the Bar, but as a coachman, living in Spring weight Boxing Championship of he never felt much interest in the Gardens-place, Stepney was Europe and a purse of £3,000, law, and on his father's death, when he came into a small com- recently charged at Marlborough- Wolls weighed 13st. 5lb. and his petence, he gave it up for a liter-street with wilfully damaging opponent 12st. with him. Both ary life and for travel. Long before, the glass panel of the door of men looked well and in fine con- like many other boys, he had written poems, and at 19 through
a flat in Great Portland-street,
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The Contest,
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POULTRY.
the munificence of his uncle, he belonging to Kittis Weston, and The contest began at ten min- had published Randolph, a tale of living on her earnings.
utes to 4. Carpentier at once rush- of Polish Greif "book of which
The prosecutrix, a tall, fash-ed in, bus Welle kept him off with exactly 17 copies were sold. Seven ionably-dressed, god-looking then twice swung his right hand, a straight left. The Frenchman years later came "The Season, girl, wearing a-dark tailor-made but on each occasion was short Satire "mostly imitated from costume, with fura and hat 12 Following this he landed his left Byron; and this was a consider match, stated that she was 25 able success,
Austin's tasto in years of age. She had a fist in on Wells's jaw, but in rushing in poetry was, indeed, framed upon Great Portland-street, for which he received a hard straight left. Byron and Scott; and it may be she paid five guineas a week. Wells followed up with a half- remembered how some 40 years She also rented rooms in Spring Carpentier went down for nine arm punch with his right, and later than the time of which we Gardens-place, Stepney, some- are speaking Browning rather times sleeping in the East End seconds. The Frenchman was
Kai Chai rudely revenged himself on some and sometimes at Great Port bleeding badly at the end of the Chicken, attack by denouncing Austin as land-street.
For two and a half round, hich went easily to Capons, Large, Small,-Sin Kai 'n banjo Byron,"
Wells. The Englishman'also had Ducks, Ap years she had been supporting After a good while in Italy, the prisoner, supplying him much the better of the second Dovea, Pan Kau Austin came home about 1864, with food and money. She gen- a splendid upper cut with his Fowls, Canton, Kai round, in which he opened with Egge, Hen-Kai Tan and next year he stood as a Con-erally gave him 10s, a day to
Hainan, Hoi Nam Kai Fervative of Taunton, which then spend, and, in addition, bought right and a backward punch with returned two members, but came clothes for him. He had threaten- his left, which sent Carpentier to Choose,Ngoi out at the bottom of the poll. In ed to shoot her. On one occasion distely, but Wells shot his right Musk Deer-Wong Keng
the floor again. He rose imme-Gesso, WildS'hai, Shang-ho Yes Ngoi the same year he married the a gentleman gave her £100 to
Hare, Shanghai,Tu Chai to the jaw.. lady who, after a long and happy go straight," and out of that sum union, survives him; she was ale gave the prisoner £50. Up to this point the English- Partridge, Che Khoo ...
Pheasant Shan Kai man looked like winning easily, Misa Heater Malcok, daughter of On the night of May 6 he came
Homan-Mulock, of King's to her flat in Great Portland but he first showed signs of Pigeons, Canton, Pak Kup
County. Some time after this street,
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when. after avoiding a vicious Quail, Um-Chan ... come a journalist, and accepted broke
right awing by ducking, he failed Rice Birds, Wo Fa Cheul the glass panel an engagement on the "Standard." the door, doing damage to the to use his left, which had stood Snipe,Sa-Choy Ilo speedily became a very good amount of 10.
him in good stead in the pre-Turkeya, Cook-Phor Kai Kung journalist, and his autobiography Mr Pfahl, in defence, siid that vious, rounds, and, dropping his Wild Ducks, S'hai-Shang hoi Sui Ap...
Hen, describes at length the work in his client was innocent and that guard, allowed Carpentier to gTeal,-Bui Áp Chai, many respecte excellent, which he a vile conspiracy had been con-punches lacked power, and in the Wild Ducks Canton-Sang-Shing Sui Ap did for his paper at the Ecumen-cocted by the prosecutrix and the fourth round he merely poked his ical Council of 1870, at the girl Ross (who gave evidence left out without any ating behind it Prassian headquarters during before in support of the prosecut-The Frenchman seized his chance, the war,and at the Congress of tion) to convict the prisoner, who and, after missing with a hard
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Berlin in 1878,
would give evidence on his own right, as a result of which both Barbol,--Ka Yu As a post it would be untrue behalf.
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judges, though his verse
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public. He wrote many volumes they lived for a time and published scores of poeme, gether at Spring Gardens-place sank to the floor, to be counted Cutile Fish, Muk Yu... long and short, in magazines and She left him in April last, and
Dab, Sa Mang Yu newspapers, especially when went to live in Grost Portland- there were special reasons for com-street.
Carpentier's victory aroused Dace-Wong Mei Lun... Oa 5th ult, he went
tremendous enthusiasm. The Dog Fish-Tit Tu Sa... ing prominently forward. When to her flat in that strast, and rowed cheered for a long time Eels, Congor, Hoi Mann Tennyson died at least three in found her there with a gentleman: and swarmed on to the stage, and
Fresh water, Tam Sin Yu formal claimants for the succes- He went there again the next
Eels, Yellow, Wong Sin Carpentier WGB carried off sion posed" their candidature night, and found the same gent-
Frogs,Tien Kai 'n seke by writing and by having their leman there. She would not let
shoulder high.
Garoupe, Set Paz...__... claims represented to the then him in, and to gain admission
Gadgson, Pak Kap Yu Prime Minister. They were Al-be, broke the glass panel of
Herrings, Teo Pak tred Austin, Sir Edwin Arnold, the door,. She had nover given and Lewis Morris-none of them, him any money. He had always Bill Beyron (Wales) mot at the Labrus, Wong Fa Yu... it must be admitted, man of the supplied her with money and National Sporting Club in a 20- Lonah,-Wa Ya: 15. front rank in literature. Lord provided her with everything she round contest for the bantani Lobsters-Lang Ha Salisbury was perplexed and kept required, and she left him on weight championship of Great Mackerel Chi Ya... the post open for nearly four three different occasions, bat be Britain. Beynon received the Monk Fish, Mong Yu... years (1892-1898), and at last, on took her back again, as she pro- decision on points.
Mullet, Chai Yu... December 30, 1895, wrote to "My mised to lead a respectable life.
Early in the contest Stanley, Oysters, Sang Hoo dear Austin to say that the After hearing further evidence who was holding persistently, was Parrotfish, Kai Kung Queen had approved his op- the congistrate said the officer's threatened with disqualification if Perch, Tan Loo... pointment One of the most evidence seemed to throw doubt be persisted in his unfair tacties. Pike, Fa Paw Poong" ... pleasant incidents that followed on the statements made by the He was worned again on seven Plaice,-Pan Yu the announcement on New Year's prosecutrix, and the prisoner separate occasions, and in the last Pomfret, Black-Hak Chong Day was the receipt of a very would be discharged on both few rounds he perpetrated other Pomfret, White, Pak Chong cordial telegram from Sir Edwin charges on his undertaking to offences, which were ignored by Prawns, Ming Ho......... Arnold, conveying heartiest con- pay 10s, the amount of the the referee, Refereeing of this Ray Pai Pa Ba vá gratulations, in which no grudge damage done to the panel of the kind tends to disgust sensible Book Fiah Bek Ka Kung mingles, though I myself expect door.
persons, with the game,
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