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LIONS GOING STRONG IN TANGANYIKA.

ROYALTY IN SCOTLAND. [FROM ODR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

Entsorean. August "22nd,

The difficulties of administration in The Highland season is at its height. The King is in the North; and for the Tanganyika are emphasised in the official report for, which dwell on the next two months the Court will be un 'Dinside and not in London, The Queer multiplication of big game. Lions hara will shortly, follow His Majesty "to Bal retained taste for human, thesh acquired

Their bokias is incred moral, the Prince of Wales has joined during the war. the Duke and Duchess York at Ghunis, ible, Whole villages are terrorised. Their

of and the Princess Royal and Princess extermination by specially trained nativ Maul are also in Sentiatal. Not since the tappers is most diffent, as they lie con- Court was first held at Balmoral haye cented in dense bush in the daytins, and the Highlands been privileged to web raid villager at night. Sixty-seven pwople couse so many representatives of the have been killed in Tabora district alone.

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Reigning House. It is interesting to note Rewards were paid and three hundred THE

that the foundation-stone of Bahneral lions and right hundred ropards were Castle was laid exactly 70 years ago, nal that it was on the neighbouring Braes o' Mar that the standard of the Sutarts was unfurled at the great Rebellion.

The King always wears a kilt of hunt ing Stuart tartan when in the Highlands, and his example is followed by a majority of the Scottish' and a good few of the English sportsmen lle is even more popular at Balmoral than at other Royal residences, partly, ho dimbt, because of his good shooting is hand has not lost its cunning, and he still ranks as one of the six best game shots in the country, It is true his record, hes not equal that of the veteran Marquis of Ripon, who has in his time shot nearly 300.000 hegil of game, but His Majesty has neverthe less soïne remarkably good hngs to his credit. The King's holiday at Bahinoral is not spent entirely in shooting or rambling. On days when he feels a little less energetic than usual, he is wont to pass the time on the Castle howling green. Many useful players are among the Royal suite, and the King himself puts up a good show with the woods.

WHAT DEER AND GRoger coar.

kill in the first six months. Elephants! and elind are most destructive of crops. einud being particularly fond of cotton.

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report regrets jealous rivalry! among Christian missions in certain dis tricts, reulting in undignifial competition and bewildernent of the natives. Iturgri Christian societies to recognise the prin ciple of spheres of influence to the profit of Christianity equally with pagaus. Owing to lack of tribal cohesion the chiefs lack control over their subjects. As the old tribal organisation was destroyed in of establishing German the authority, numerous petty headmen haye sprung up, commanding little respect The astrinistration's policy of righting the paramount chiefs is showing pleaking results. The report alluding to efforts to stamp out witchcraft says medicine men are chiefly responsible for infanticide, which is still prevalent among the Wapare tribe, who destroy childreti afflicted with the slightest abnormality by suffocation, poisoning or starvation, because the medicine mou declare such children are unlucky. The Wachagga and Wazigua tribes have abandoned these abominations. It is hoped that the Wapare will shortly follow their example.

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into consideration the fact that they were specially designed for the Boubay mail trade, the new 15,000-ton ships are to be named

Deer stalking, which will soon be in full swing, is one of the most expensive of sports, a deer forest rental being based usually on the figure of 230 per stag shot

Rajput, Rawalpindi, a fixed number being previously stipul ated. Many forests, of course, are let at Run pure, good round-sounding names an inclusive rental for deer, grouse, and suited to the trade. But they have the fishing, but even so, the cost of the deer disadvantage that there will be consider- stalking works out much the seable difficulty in getting the average

This year the first grouse to arrive in docker to make them intelligible. London on the Twelfth of August-and WHERE -SCOTS' SCORE. which, by the way, were conveyed thither

We Scots often have occasion to pride by aeroplane sold at two guineas per ourselves upon the superiority of our laws ird. Next day the price fell to £1

as compared with those of England. rage, and was soon, thereafter reduced That we take fewer opportunities than to balf that. Perhaps the average mar other nations of getting ourselves mixed ket price of grouse over the whole coun»

up with these inws seems to be a further try for any one season is somewhere about natter for self-congratulation. For, a five shillings 1. grouse sold at the rate cording to figures just published, Scot obtained for the first consignment to land appears to be the least litigously reach London, the leasing of grouse moors inclined of all nations. Whereas Scot- would be a profitabile financial concern. land has only 20 law-suita per annum per At fire shillings a brace any such prospect thousand of the population, England bas vanishes. Grouse shooting has never

42, France 53, and Germany tops the mid its way, and never will. It is ast with 72. Our English friends will generally received axiom that grouse cost probably conclude that the Scots dislike

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the sportsman £1 per hrace. The figure of lawsuits is due to the fact of their HONGKONG GIGAR STORE, LTD: is an average one. The cost per bird to cost. But Scots lawyers.manage to do

the grouse-shooter naturally varies with the seasons, but the greatest variations are to be found in shooting rentals. The rental per acre varies from six-peace to half-a-crown, according to the degrees of production. In good seasons many birds are shot, in bad seasons few. Thus there may be an enormous variation in the cost per hird in two'successive years.

LONDON SCOTTISH FOR CANADA,

A detachment of 50 officers and men of the London Scottish, under the com- and of 'Colonel G., C. K. Clowes, have just sailed for Canal, the purpose of the trip being to cement the affiliation of the Toronto Highlanders with the London Scottish, which took place towards the end of the war. They are a verentile lot these London Scots. Each man is a first- class athlete, some are boxers, others are

sprinters, they can put cricket, and foot

ball teams in the field if reqħtired,`and quite a number are good Highland' dan cers. The Scots will pay their own travel.

·ling-expenses.rbut in-Canada will be the guests of the Government, and their Toronto comrades.

pretty well out of their limited opportuni ties. And perhaps the better lesson to be read from the statistics quoted is that these reficct our native Scots canniness. and the ability to settle our differences. without having recourse to outside nid. "THE FLYING SCOTSMAN. ”

An Olympic Games expert who bas returned to Britain after a tour of in- spection in Northern Europe in order to sce for himself and advise as to what other nations are doing for next year's eat struggle declares that the sprint- g of EH. Liddell,the flying Best," is the whole talk of the Continent. From the English side pressure has already been brought to hear upon him, not to. engage in too many closs of the scaron races, and to abstain from Rugger during the winter. And seedless to say they arc

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FINANCIAL CHAOS RUINS QUE FISHERMEN.

This has been a disastrois season for the fishing communities on the East Coast of Scotland, particularly on the Moray The idea of such reunions is one well Firth. They have a black winter before. worth extension, but perhaps it could them. A leading authority stated with only be carried out to any extent by emphasis that Tuin, unless aniracle Scots, with their proverbial clannishness, happens, stares the fishermen in the There was generally, close camaraderie face." Where, when, or how any such between the non-regulur Jock batta miracle could happen he had not the lions. They had in common not only the faintest idea. ffe mentioned that the immortal garb of Old Gaul, and their fuhr district alone normally consumed Scottish tongue, but there was a slight 1,000 barrels of cured herring daily, but Bloofness on the part of most of the this outlet was greatly restricted by the regular kilted battalions. The regulars tax imposed by the French and the were sometimes inelined to he jealous of depreciated German cuPTENCY. "outsiders." Yet the latter were origin.

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"Jocks," who included always a proporOn the summit of Ben Nevis I witheas tion of Saxons in their platoons. And? ed an incident that might well furnish a the proud tradition of the kilted fighters theme for poet or philosopher. I was that no fooman ever gazed upon their standing on the edge of the great pre- pleats, which are at the back of the kilt cipice near the Observatory, and was was well maintained by these out gazing down into the tremendous aby aiders." The London, Liverpool and where the mist boiled and eddied. Just Tyneside Scottish, like their overseas at my feet a steep muddy slope led to comrades, the Canadian and South Afri-

a patch of snow which fell away at an con Septtish, ranked high in the estima abrupt angle into a fearsome void. I felt tion of expert critics who knew the quite brave to be where I was At this OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE stoutest campaiguera,

moment a young man, accompanied by two young women, came along and stood H. BUTTONJEE & SON, beside me. The man, in the rich accents of Lancashire, remarked that he wouldn't half like to make a snowball in August, whereupon, to my amazement and hor-: ror, one of the girls skipped over the edge, slithered down the mud on to the snow slope, and returned with a handful

SHIP NAMES.

In finding names for the three liners which are now being built on the Clyde, the P and U. Line is faced with some difficulty, for it has long been its policy to give all sister ships nomes with the sane initial letter, and there are, now so many classes in the fleet that fow suit of snow, which she presented to the by able letters remain unoccupied, each name no means abushed swain. He accepted being expected to have some connection the offering with the most delightful with the company or its route. Choosing

grace in the world. I recalled the ancient

the letter R as the initial, and taking story of King Francis and the lady's

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