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greatly and was exceeding glad. From Labouchere turning up at longth, we greated Battersea, from Stepney, from Ackney Wick, kim with tremendous enthusiasm, and he fell from Boko, from St. Stephen's they adventured to business. Little Mr. Laboushore bad not in their thousands, and held what they were got more than pleased to call a public meeting in Queen's before some temerarions individual in the ody Hall At this meeting a pair of worthy gentle of the hall said "No." It was the mildest of men nad Merriman and Baner had been billed, interruptions, and simply bore reference to a to put the crowning touch upon their oratorical question of fact. In any ordinary assemblage labones in the British Islands. At this meeting it would have passed without remistir. Little no less a stalwart thau little Mr. Houry Labou- Mr. Labouchere took no notice of it. It did there would preside. At this meeting there not give him the mallest pause. But the "stewards" of the meeting had orders, which would actually be important" speeches from Mr. Lloyd George, MP, and the excellent orders they were simply lusting to obey, Dr. Clifford. And what is more remarkable, and a flying column of at least twenty at this meeting there would be a public door. gasworkers asyrias, and Covent Garden porters swooped down upon that mild inter- And it all came to pass and much more. DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,

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T AGENTS for this above Company s it without these were the things that met my bad a narrow squeak myself, for on remarking prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE calm gaze. Of a policeman I inquired the way to the man in the next stall that the "stawards

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"No. 16. I judged that "No. 16 was the m Hongkong, 18th May, 1900,

number of a door, and therefore set out to find ejectments were continual, not a single speaker VORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR it. Mach straggling brought me to a place raised his voice in the interests of order. Each

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[31.my card, the which, however, was incontinently he did not call Mr. Chamberlain "Judas," and thrown out by unseen scoruers. Then I strug he did not call Lord Milner as despicable LACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- gled in myself, only, however, to be thrust back penny-a-liner"; neither did he demand a settle-

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by a gang of angry doorkeepers, who yelled atment which would involve the absulato the top of their voices," Stewards' tickets onlyindependence of the Transvaal and Orange Pross seats full With one of these persons I River Colonies "All we ask for," he said, endoavoured to expostulate. Catching him by "is equal rights and terms of peace such as Bat the the waistcoat so that he might not retreat, I can be accepted by brave men." strained every nerve to impress upon him the meeting, though ostensibly pro-Boer, was ret importance of being reasonable. But the more in Mr. Sauers's hands. It was in the hands of I expostulated the greater grow his desire to little Mr. Labonohere who is nothing if not bar ny progress, and by and by, with a mighty acrimonious, and the pathetic Mr. Lloyd- sffort and the assistance of the colleagues, he George, with his painful inexactitudes about threw me back into the arms of the waiting the torture of little children. And, more than Constabulary, who with amazing rapidify jerked all, it was in the bands of a couple of cheap

Socialists from Battersea and 700"stewards ze into the fairnay of the street.

By the time I had stormed No. 16 thrice, and armed with bludgeons, knuckle-dusters, large fists, and kindred aids to penue. It was the had been thrice repelled without the lows of a pond of stores, I began to hanker after cheap Socialiste from Battersea who transform- another number. At the rear of the Queen'sol a moderately reasonable resolution into a Hall I discovered, after some searching, a fairly ridionlons and impossible one. by moving that narrow alley, and at the top of it were dors 14 the final words."anch terms of peace shall be and 15. Here the crowd. though closely packed, offered to the Boers of the two Republics as a had an appearance of respectainty which brave and freedom loving people could accept." rather seduced me and through the morey of el uld be supplemented by these terms to Providence there was only one policeman. By include the complete independence of the two diat of a little strategy and apologising I got Republios." And the cheap Socialists had the £704 well into that crowd. On the thunk of it, lost meeting with them, for the resolution as amended cheek by joal with the solitary policeman, was adopted nemine contradicente amid four- some yells of Good old Battersea!" and stood an excited. gentleman who, in spite of the. fact that he seemed without a ticket, evidentlyAnother Socialist victory!" Of the General hal something to do with the show. For trend of the speeches themselves enough the daily paper. Le called out continually in bland and helpful has been reported in

"war against tones, "Get your tickets ready, please," "Green The stock shibbolethe were Tickets only,

No money can be taken at the wouden and children" and "torture of infants Roors Giel your tickets ready, please." Two ne, two, and three years old." -A lady Americans without tickets asked him if he could orator, Mrs. Byles by name, very kindly gst them in. He replied that he would be very suggested that in time to come the spirits of glad to do so, but that he was there "to protect those slaughtered innocents ould surely haunt the Press and the ladies," and was consequently Mr. Brodrick," who it appeared had been feed- fulllianded. Here, thought. I to myself, issing them on maggoty meat" instead of on 34 In short, the whole friend in need. In twenty minutes or so we turnip and carrot juice. had ecufiled to within a few yards of the door. tone of the proceedings, if we except the speech By which time the Americas and the gentle of Mr. Bauer, was not so much pro-Boer as man who had something to do with the show anti-British, anti-Governmental, and even anti- had become subroiled. In fact, the gentleman Libéral. Within recent years there has probably who had something to do with the show was never been a finer exhibition of the tyranny and shouting, "Constable constable, do your duty. violence which would rule the roost if these These men are kicking the ladies."

ardent peace-mongers and their pugilistic allies were allowed to prevail. Insincerity and common cant were writ large over the entire business. It was a "public meeting" held with locked and barricadad doors what time the public clamoured outside for admission. It was a "peace meeting" which could not have hung together ten minutes in the abrenos of its fence of organised rafianism. It was a meating which wept to hear of the sufferings of little children, but could suggest no means of alleviating those sufferings other than the complete indepen lanes of the two Republics." We were now pretty well on the threshold of It was a meeting, moreover, at which you were to and through No. 15, and decidedly squeezed. Prior to tented to indulge in a trip taking his turn at the entrance, which was Helland, personally conducted by the Managers," of 8h guineas for a thirteen guarded in such a way that only one person at the ruto Could pass at a time, a clergyman ahead of us days tour," and with "a carriage drive called out to a lady in the tail of the procession, through the beautiful environs of Arnhem, I'll wait for you inside, dear. Why aren't all Hotel (high claes) expenses with meat break- And I fast, excolleat dinner, and hot for cold) hunch these meetings befter organised?" wondered why myself until I reached theor supper," and "the promise of an audience of Queen's Hall side of the door, where the President Kruger" thrown in. Little children, organisation fall upon me as one organisation forsooth! Where is the appeal of the Mans and clamoured sweatingly and with flaming gers" for "maat breakfast, excellent dinner. eyes for my ticket. Ticket, of course, I had and hot (or cold) lunch or supper" for little Where are the subscriptions of none. As for carde, I might as well have shown children? a card to the Lernean bydra. The organisation httle Mr. Labenchers and the path tie "Mr. handed one round and tried to spell it out amit Lloyd-George towards a fand for mash a par abouts of "Where's yar ticket

ticketShow yer pose? And why does Mr. Kruger fcol away - Tickets, pleass !" "No ticket!

his money

In the recruiting of foreign meroon- ticket!"

Chuck him!" Presa!" "Press by blowed!" aries, while the little children of the people "Pass him!" "No ticket!"This way to the whom he has dragged into an insane wat, starve, exit!" And so forth. A particularly dirty ruffion, and, as Mrs. Byles delicately put it, "die like clothed on with a three days' beard, bandled my Bies P Possibly the spirits of "those slaughtered iuto a corridor, yelling Press, did yer my iunocents will consider euriously the money-

?? 1554 Well, I say

Outside!" Then, somehow, bege of Paul Krager and the 31-gaines tours. somebody in a blue-serge suit came up, and was and costly pugilistic "peace mestings" of his very humble and civil. You see, sir," he admirers, before they begin to haunt Mr. Said,

"It's this organised opposition. We have Brodrick-T. W. HC. in the Detlook. to be very careful. We don't want no strangers hore a-breekin' up of our meeting, Are you sure you are a Press man " In view of what

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